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First elected to Congress in 1987 in a special election, Ms. Pelosi has been a member of the Appropriations Committee, an assignment she used to steer funding to her home region.

"With the efforts to shine more light on the earmarking process," he said, "I am concerned that we might see increasingly creative ways to steer funding to recipients of funding that members of Congress want to see it go to".

Michael Stephens, an aide who recently left the committee after working for Obey for 3 decades, praises his former boss for defending peer review and opposing political efforts to steer funding to specific diseases.

"The NFL attempted to use its 'unrestricted gift' as leverage to steer funding away from one of its critics".

The Rating Initiative promotes the use of social ratings by investors to steer funding towards MFIs with strong social missions.

Although aid agencies say they are trying to steer funds to poor Jordanians, foreign assistance is only slowly trickling in, leaving many in need.

The flood of refugees is straining the limited resources of the Jordanian government and aid agencies, though agencies say they are also trying to steer funds to poor Jordanians.

If large investors and even ordinary savers worry about a seizure of their assets whenever a bank gets in trouble, the private sector may grow more reluctant to steer funds toward troubled financial institutions, putting more pressure on the European Central Bank to pump in rescue funds.

At one of those groups -- five Indian trusts that now hold the assets of Mr. Akula's original nonprofit version of SKS -- two board members resigned in March over his plan to steer funds toward his original nonprofit group rather than granting them to many charitable entities.

She boldly changed awareness campaigns to focus as much on prevention and early diagnosis as on identifying and treating the symptoms of the disease, and brought patient views into decisions about which grants the charity would make – something that helped to steer funds towards the discovery of a protein SOX-2 that may help with earlier detection of ovarian cancer.

The state Democratic Party emphasized races down the ballot, for State Assembly and State Senate, and steered funding to political novices in strongly Latino districts.