In a 25-page response (and addendum) submitted today to the appeals court, attorneys for plaintiffs Theresa Deisher and James Sherley argue that the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) efforts to quickly disburse hESC research grants during the current stay show that continuing it "would lead to a flight of federal dollars into hESC research" and cause them "irreparable harm".
As Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced plans to quickly disburse $32.7 billion in stimulus grants and $130 billion in loans, his own inspector general issued a report citing a personnel shortage in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer that handles funding applications.
Assuming that a plan passes muster, the money to support it would quickly be disbursed.
Nancy Birdsall of the Centre for Global Development, a Washington think-tank, believes that the bank should also temporarily suspend internal rules that prevent loans being disbursed quickly.Even if that were to happen, plenty of problems lie ahead.
The so-called Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility will initially provide up to $500 million that can be disbursed quickly to fight a pandemic, with funds released once parametric triggers are met, based on the size, severity and spread of an outbreak.
As long as you submit all the required details, you should be able to get the loan disbursed quickly.
Checks have been too small, and the company has not disbursed money quickly enough to workers who are desperate to pay bills, critics say.
True, it will increase the amount of money the Fund can disburse quickly (by its own standards) in times of emergency.
By February of that year, 40% of the PEPFAR budget had been disbursed [ 41], indicating fast disbursement.
"If we had a flu pandemic that would move very quickly and potentially kill millions, we would need many billions disbursed right away".
