Word: budgeted
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...specific votes show exactly how far out of touch with the mainstream Bush is. In 1986, the administration's budget proposed cutting student financial aid by $20 billion over a period of four years. There was bipartisan opposition to this measure. The administration also backed an amendment to the Department of Education appropriations bill that would have cut education funding by more than $800 million. The majority of voting Republicans rejected the amendment...
...Bush didn't mention was that a bill had already been passed to do exactly that; the Mental Health Systems Act was signed into law by President Carter in 1980. Once of Reagan's first executive acts in early 1981 was to insist that it be eliminated from the budget. Bush has no right to call for more clinics for the mentally ill; were it not for his administration, they would exist today...
...pivotal facility is projected to consume 19% of the $8.1 billion DOE budget for weapons production next year. Some 17,900 people work on its 192,323-acre site, even though two of Savannah River's five reactors are shut down permanently, and the others are not allowed to run at full power in part because of deficiencies in their emergency cooling systems. Still, the plant is the sole supplier of plutonium and tritium, the flint and steel of nuclear warheads. While the nation probably has all the plutonium it needs, tritium, which enhances plutonium's yield, has a half...
...other issues are also on the agenda, including campus-wide social life, the need for a student center, handling the council's newly doubled budget and perennial academic matters like tenure policy and the advising system...
...also of Eliot House, says he wants to improve undergraduate advising and the shuttle bus system, as well as ensuring that the council is "particularly prudent in our distribution of grants," in light of the doubling of the council's budget this year from...