Republicans did propose block funding for Medicaid to begin stabilizing the national budget.
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Another calls for legal aid to be administered by an independent director - preventing the justice secretary from taking direct control of the legal aid budget, which would allow him to block funding for particular kinds of action, such as clinical negligence, welfare claims or miscarriages of justice against the police.
Members of Congress from New York and Connecticut are seeking to block the funding.
Twenty-nine governors, all Republicans, wrote Congress last month asking for flexibility in the form of block grant funding.
And going ahead with the F-22 shouldn't in any way block development and funding of unmanned vehicles, which are becoming more sophisticated and deadly.
And then there is the myriad of regulations that countries enforce to block money laundering and funding of terrorism.
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said he feared that Clinton's appointment of Lee would lead to a backlash in the Senate with opponents attempting to block judicial appointments and funding for some of the president's key projects.
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And I think it is a very reasonable projection that the kinds of choices created by the block granting and the reduced funding would make it impossible to have the mix that we have today.
That morning, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) issued a press release stating he would soon introduce a bill that would not only reallocate the D Block but would also propose funding the construction of the nationwide public safety network using revenue from future auctions.
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The 1996 welfare reforms proved that the poor can enjoy higher incomes, while the taxpayers would save trillions, if those same reforms based on fixed, finite, block grants of the federal funding back to the states, were extended to the 200 or so additional means tested entitlement programs for the poor, with broad discretion for the states to reform the programs.
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Since the Obama administration seeks to empower all of these organizations, at a minimum, such an Israeli policy will embolden Obama's political opponents to block his policies by curtailing US funding of these bodies.
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Mr. Obama's goal is to restore billions of dollars to community block grants, a key source of funding for cities, with the new office shepherding the disbursements.
Those block grants replaced the old federal matching funding formula with fixed finite funding that left the states responsible for 100% of increased spending, but gaining 100% from any savings.
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But it would entirely eliminate funding for the Social Services Block Grant program, which helps fund Meals on Wheels, transportation, and other important assistance for people with chronic disease who live at home.
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Later at the public safety press conference, Senators Joe Liebermann (I-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ) announced that they had, that day, introduced a bill in the Senate that also calls for the reallocation of the D Block to public safety and would provide funding using revenue from future auctions.
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Do you agree or disagree with converting the Medicaid program from the current system in which states and the federal government share oversight and funding responsibilities to a system of federal block grants to state governments, who would then decide how to allocate the grant funds to Medicaid recipients?
Lawyers for a group seeking to block sections of the plan argued the Irish government is no longer committed to funding the overall upgrade.
In contrast, she points out, block-grant programmes grow much more slowly when times are tough, since funding for them does not increase in line with demand.
The key to the 1996 reforms was that the block grants to each state were finite, not matching, so the federal funding did not vary with the amount the state spent.
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Foundations like Gates and Clinton are the new kids on the block in international health, but are having a huge impact mostly due to their funding.
What the Republican plan would do would be to block-grant it, give a great deal of flexibility to the states, and lower funding, and tell the states you run your programs with less money.
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