Sentences with phrase «virtual blank check»
«We ask that all members of Congress join us in working to remove from the pending Energy Bill massively expensive loan guarantees — potentially a virtual blank check from taxpayers — for the building of many more nuclear power plants.
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Currently before Congress, the Senate version of the Energy Bill could authorize the Department of Energy to hand out what the musicians call a «virtual blank check» for funding new nuclear reactors at taxpayer expense.
In his 2012 article, Murphy also mentioned something about those business types» being upset about «providing a virtual blank check to a GOP apparatus that promised much and delivered very little.»
An urgent plea for the government to write a virtual blank check.