Sentence examples for permanent entitlement from inspiring English sources

The sequestration cuts, now accepted by many Republicans, as the White House notes, provide no permanent entitlement changes.

In negotiations over the final farm bill, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, presented a proposal to make the program a permanent entitlement, like food stamps.

Representative Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who as chairman shepherded the bill through the committee, said it would give the elderly a "permanent entitlement" to insurance for prescription drugs.

First, to minimize the costs of transferring ITQ rights among rights-holders and users, rights should be separated into three components: a permanent entitlement share, an annual catch allocation, and a license to fish.

Also, these blowouts aren't a permanent entitlement.

The companies cannot have a presumptive, permanent entitlement to take our money and to enroll these students, many of them service members, returning veterans, single parents, students of color, immigrants, and others struggling to build better futures.

Sometimes introduced as temporary provisions, tax expenditures have a way of becoming permanent entitlements.

While Republicans and Democrats said they had qualms about adding a permanent new entitlement, others saw this vote as a chance to promote expanded federal health care.

Permanent legal entitlements could strengthen and energize these initiatives.

The bill prevents the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from "standardizing" its policies, creates federal authority to force the siting of transmission lines, and provides permanent transmission entitlements to existing transmission holders that are guaranteed to be deeply contentious.

By replacing appropriations reductions scheduled for 2015 with what would presumably be permanent changes in entitlement programs and the tax code, the proposal would likely increase the long-term deficit reduction.