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...time, a well-conceived and carefully targeted Model Cities program was disgraced when the chairman of an appropriations subcommittee saw to it that Smithville, Tenn., his hometown, become one of the recipients. Some laboratory for urban...
...percent. To understand that 7 to 1 disparity, look no further than Wednesday's hearing of the House defense appropriations subcommittee. Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen proved themselves again to be serious...
...people ''feeble'' and ''weak-minded.'' Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., speaking to a packed Appropriations subcommittee hearing Tuesday, said Ventura's comments on suicide in an interview last fall revealed an ''insensitivity...
...privacy and to balance the interests'' of investigators and individual citizens. In a speech to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee in February, FBI Director Louis J. Freeh warned of a coming wave of Internet crime and Web-based terrorism...
...Mauvais Coulee, the route by which much of a nine-county area drains into Devils Lake. On June 12, a House Appropriations subcommittee approved $2.2 million for engineering, design and environmental studies for a proposed emergency drainage...
...appoint conferees. Even then, a chagrinned Thad Cochran, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate agriculture appropriations subcommittee, had to tell reporters he hadn't even seen, much less signed off on it, a deal on food sales to Cuba...
...traced specifically to purchases of spare parts. Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense, requested the audit when the Pentagon continued to complain about parts shortages compromising...
...credibility required to discipline congressional spending. When Rep. James Walsh of New York, the chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that handles the budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, had to resort to the desperation...
...H. Rumsfeld told a Senate panel Wednesday. Rumsfeld was responding to comments by members of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense citing recent news reports that the administration would turn a blind eye to China's nuclear...
...not alone and that we have a lot of support." Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee, replied: "Mr. Mayor, very simply, we will not let you down." A city official announced that a memorial...