Sentences with phrase «federal taxpayer dollars spent»

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And then (this part is new and part of Paladino's pre-primary media blitz), the focus turns to the «former liberal Congressman Rick Lazio,» who «voted for higher taxes and increased federal spending» and «took a $ 1.6 million bonus from a huge Wall Street bank getting a $ 25 billion - dollar taxpayer - financed bailout.

The SALT cap also will increase the effective cost of State and local government services at the margin; each new dollar of State and local government spending will cost New York taxpayers more than under previous federal law.

«Rather than inject politics into this process, our discussion today should instead concentrate on how to safeguard the often unexpected process of discovery inherent in scientific inquiry, while ensuring that federal dollars spent on research remains completely and fully accountable taxpayers.»

President Bush wrote that this was why in 2001 he pushed for NCLB's accountability - through - testing as a performance audit of the spending of federal taxpayers» dollars.

He once spoke movingly about the virtues of NCLB, calling it «an effort to end decades of failed federal education policy that allowed billions of taxpayer dollars to be spent without insisting on results for students» But that was before Boehner had to corral a caucus full of Tea Party - backed freshmen.

That is why most states and the federal government choose to spend taxpayer dollars on «targeted» preschool programs open only to low - income families.

«This bill will pave the way for a House - Senate conference to discuss both reforming how taxpayer dollars are spent on federal infrastructure programs, and also meaningful solutions that would address high gas prices and create jobs by permanently removing government barriers to American energy production.»

Canada's federal Conservative Party of Canada, at least, had the good sense not to spend (more) taxpayer dollars shilling for Big Oil.

An «omnibus» spending bill to fund the federal government through October 2015 throws up roadblocks for the Obama administration's climate agenda, namely by blocking taxpayer dollars from going to the United Nations global warming fund.

On the premise of fighting climate change, the Obama Administration has positioned the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, vehicles, and oil exploration, and taxpayers are being forced to spend billions of extra dollars in an attempt to transition to a carbon - free economy.

But the essential problem is identical: an enforced «consensus» causing billions upon billions of federal taxpayer dollars to be spent on worthless research that is then used as a basis for coercive government policy.

Each year, the federal government spends billions of dollars on disaster relief to flood victims — all at taxpayer expense.