Nearly a quarter of the financing requested for homeland defenses for next year is to be channeled into these and other airport security projects.
A total of $1.3 billion of the additional money requested for the department would finance a third round of Race to the Top, a competitive school improvement grant program.
For Saturday's pink balloon event, the American Embassy turned down a request for financing.
He then worked for the Ford Foundation for almost three years, evaluating requests for financing antipoverty projects and other programs.
Redirecting that money would not necessarily prompt a request for financing for road improvements on the New York side, they said.
Large donors review requests for financing and for capital grants, and their decisions help shape Charlotte's cultural life.
Asked what his strategy was to improve the region's dismal economic performance, he pointed only to his most recent request for financing from Brussels: $2.2 billion.
She and her staff of grant-makers field 45,000 requests for financing a year and, intent on not spreading the wealth too thinly, reward 2,000.
Supporters of an earmark ban point out that unlike earmarks written into a spending bill, requests for financing made through letters, phone calls or other methods are not legally binding on an agency.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently rejected a request for financing for the $100 million proposal, although a city spokesman, Frank McCarton, said that they were confident they would get federal money for the project.
"By offering an in-depth understanding of the way in which airway mechanics lead to the manifestations of asthma, the project should answer many questions behind this disease," Dr. Permutt's team wrote in its request for financing.
