The spoils of war. (Data).In April, President George W. Bush signed off on nearly $80 billion in emergency spending to pay for the war on Iraq. With that much money in play, the White House and Congress couldn't help but throw in a few extra goodies that had nothing to do with Iraq. Take, for example, the $93 million marked under three separate expenditures for counter-narcotics initiatives led by the Defense and State Departments. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. David Williams David Williams is the name of: Musicians
RELATED ARTICLE: Sample Expenses in the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act $2.9 billion to bail out failing airlines $110 million for the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa Ames is a city located in the central part of the U.S. state of Iowa, about 30 miles north of Des Moines in Story County. It is the principal city of the 'Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses all of Story County, Iowa and which, when combined with the $65 million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Noun 1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and for geostationary Aligned with the earth. Refers to satellites (GEOs) that travel at the same rotational speed as the earth (they are geosynchronous) and are always the same distance from the earth. See GEO. and polar orbiting systems $16 million to study severe acute respiratory syndrome Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Definition Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the first emergent and highly transmissible viral disease to appear during the twenty-first century. , or SARS $15 million for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission $4.8 million for the General Accounting Office $3.3 million for "payment to the European Communities" with regard to the "music licensing dispute" $2 million for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's State and Tribal Wildlife Grants $1 million for Training and Employment Services at the Department of Labor $231,000 for abstinence education and related services for a Lutheran ministry in Allentown, Pennsylvania Sources: Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act (H.R. 1559) and Citizens Against Government Waste (www.cagw.org) |
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