The salvo is also aimed to block all funds for current and pending EPA greenhouse gas regulations on stationary sources throughout the remaining fiscal year.
With a Medicaid block grant to the states, states could use the block grant funds to provide financing for each poor family to choose the private health insurance of their choice.
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The U.S. House of Representatives agrees with the governors and included a plan to block grant Medicaid funds in its Fiscal Year 2012 budget.
The funds are provided through bond refinancing savings Community Development Block Grant, and city funds.
Payment processors and ad networkers would also be roped into this enforcement scheme in an attempt to block the flow of funds to sites that supposedly facilitate copyright infringement.
Shortly after Mr. Obama's inauguration, he and some congressional Democrats were pushing a plan to block managers of hedge funds and private-equity funds from paying a low 15% capital-gains tax rate on part of their income.
But most importantly, to the extent that we block foreigners from investing -- for raising funds in the United States, we probably undercut the viability of our own system.
The Federal government sent its share of spending on that program in a block grant back to the states with the funds to be spent on a new program designed by each state based on required work for the able-bodied.
Block grants are wrong and states will wind up using the funds for other purposes.
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Critics say that it could leave Scotland short of funds - depending upon how the consequential reduction in block grant is calculated - and who does the sums.
Preserving block trading through these large indications helps institutional investors working for mutual funds and 401(k)s trade without moving the market against themselves, says Al Berkeley, chairman of Pipeline Trading Systems.
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?
Block grants -- states, not the federal government, will decide how to dispense aid using limited federal funds.
Federal programs with matching funds to states (e.g. transit, Medicaid) should be eliminated or restructured as block grants as was done successfully with Welfare.
Democrats, fearing the money will not be applied to education priorities, have resisted the idea of block grants since the Republicans came to power in early 1995, arguing the federal government must monitor how federal funds are put to local use.
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