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Social safety-net spending is an important form of public funding that helps offset disparities in family resources for children.
I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
During times of plenty - when venture funding is abundant and startups multiply like rabbits - every business looks like a winner.
There's bipartisan efforts to change how FEMA works or, more importantly, change how relief funding trickles down to us down here.
I don't think most conservatives are against access to birth control, but they are wary of funding things like Planned Parenthood.
I care about dental care, and ending mass private and public surveillance, and funding schools so they can have small class sizes.
I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.
For far too long, Washington has denied the American citizens of Puerto Rico vital human services and adequate health care funding.
As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.
In a moment of stress, funding may go to systemically-important firms, which could pull funding away from firms not making the cut.
I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.
If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.
We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.
Conflicts are not temporary interruptions: they are structural, socio-economic catastrophes, and funding must be allocated accordingly.
The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.
People are getting older - that is a good thing - but there isn't enough funding in the system. And there's a whole number of injustices.
If funding for DHS is delayed, it will have a grave effect on Washington's economy as commerce grinds to a halt along the Canadian border.
There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
Rather than play politics with funding our government, pitting one group against another, we should make strong investments in our future.
If it is something particularly useful and for some reason is having trouble getting funding from traditional sources, I may be interested.
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
There are too few people working in the area of viral pathogenesis and immunity, too little funding, too many problems, and too little time.
There's a lot of egos in these countries, like the French, the Germans, et cetera, and so they keep funding and rehabilitating Yasser Arafat.
I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I was devastated.
If there's anyone who's against Wall Street, it's Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton, who basically lives off of the funding from Wall Street.
The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
If there's ever a moment when I am an Anglophile, it's when I see so many theatres in this country that have what I would call federal funding.
Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.
Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'
I've introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things.
As our leaders in Washington confront tough decisions about our budget priorities, I urge them to continue federal funding for public broadcasting.
We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them.
We need to have much clearer regulations on things like corporate funding of scientific research. Things need to be made explicit which are implicit.
I will continue to work in Congress to support Lyme disease research and education through funding for the National Institutes of Health and the CDC.
When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.
Dead End' will see one of the most successful complex cross country funding and I'm sure it will firm up India's position in the global cinema market.
There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.
Nothing could do more harm to America's national security than a carbon-restricted, depressed economy that would make funding our military impossible.
I'd love DonorsChoose.org to become a place where teachers can post innovative, out-of-the-box projects that they can't get funding for traditionally.
The GOP wants to cut funding for birth control, place undue burdens on clinics that serve low income women and families, and defund Planned Parenthood.
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.
The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.
Governments do have the duty to protect national interest. But we should not be afraid of foreign funding of Indian CSOs, unless malintent can be proved.