Sentences with phrase «amount of congressional committee»

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(The process begins with a congressional resolution instructing committees in the House and the Senate to draw up legislation that saves the federal government a set amount of money.)

And they'd taken care of themselves but the fact is that the individual Congressmen knew not only that they weren't promised any cash on the table for themselves to sell out their voters to Wall Street but they thought that even if the Democratic National Committee or the Republication Congressional Committee contributed money to their campaigns, no amount of television or media advertising could persuade the voters that they were not crooks.

So we've been talking about this effort by this group, the Republican State Leadership Committee, to put not huge amounts of money, but enough money to make a difference in a few dozen state legislative races, hoping that Republicans could then control statehouses, and after the 2010 census draw the new congressional lines.

Mr. Recchia's brutal loss — despite the unprecedented amount of money he and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent on the race — left some Democrats convinced a Brooklynite can not win the district.

A study by the bipartisan congressional Joint Tax Committee this week found that the House proposal would provide a tax break for the majority of families earning more than $ 50,000 a year, even though the largest dollar amount of savings goes to businesses and the wealthy.

Washington (CNN)- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised $ 19.6 million in the first three months of 2011, a sizable amount as they try to regain the House majority in the 2012 elections.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent about $ 7 million in more than three dozen districts this week, catching up to the National Republican Congressional Committee in the total amount of money spent on ads thus far.

Constituents of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, were unsettled by Obama's proposal, which cuts the amount of agency funding that would flow through standard congressional spending committees by $ 588 million, to $ 5.9 billion.

Just days shy of its December 13 deadline, a bipartisan congressional committee charged with developing a long - term budget solution agreed on a two - year plan (PDF) that addresses sequestration cuts, establishes top - level budget amounts for FY14 and FY15, and allows both Democrats and Republicans to continue negotiating a deficit reduction plan.