Each year, Congress has reinstated
funding for this program, which includes, among other activities, expeditions with the submersible ALVIN to mid-oceanic ridges.
As veterans urge Congress to enact legislation to guarantee VA health care
funding, they are sometimes met with a barrage of arguments that a change in
funding would not be beneficial to veterans.
government is not the only, nor perhaps even the largest, source of American
funding and human resources being applied to the development challenge.
This means that all the grand pronouncements and national debates about vouchers, charter schools, national standards, class size, and teacher salaries are disingenuous to the degree that they presuppose a basic parity in school
funding and a substantial federal role in financing education--neither of which actually exists.
However, although data are not yet available, the stock market boom of 1995 appears to have raised the assets of pension funds considerably and probably helped improve
funding ratios for many state and local pension plans.
The public policy analysis of pre-funding has to start from understanding the ramifications of a lack of
funding, the trend to defined contributions plans, and the evident fact that people are not saving money.
* To the extent that the Government of Israel requests the fund to be used for such purposes, not less than $520,000,000 of this
funding shall be available for the procurement in Israel of defense articles and service, including research and development.
Hence, a trust
funding a WBP cannot be a source of retirement income or deferred compensation benefits.
With regard to returns for the sub-trusts, such as the survivor's, by-pass and marital trusts, the IRS wanted these returns filed based on facts and not on a "deemed"
funding date.
"This is an election year and a golden opportunity for Congress to fix the veterans health care
funding problem," said DAV National Commander Alan W.
Funding requested for FY2004 for the Department of State (DoS), U.S.
INS requires only that the level of
funding be sufficient for the commercial activity.
It tends to undermine the message of abstinence" If elected, he vowed to support the efforts of groups like Heritage with a boost in federal
funding.