"The GAO is prepared to assist the Bureau throughout the process to ensure that this technology upgrade becomes a model program instead of another government IT failure like those which GAO found at other agencies, " the letter said.
In this post-financial crisis world, the Fed has taken a Keynesian edict and turned it on its head: instead of the government stepping in after a crisis to make up for the loss of aggregate demand from the private sector, it has fallen to central banks.
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Schumer now appears to be going public with his private push for a more robust federal role in any co-op proposal -- to plant the flag on what most Democrats are willing to accept in any bipartisan compromise that involves health care cooperatives instead of a government-run insurance option.
Philanthropy should build the demand for these things instead of substituting for government action.
Instead, heads of government will regroup for further summits each spring to check on progress.
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Instead of dogma the government needs to look at the evidence of where new schools are most needed.
Managed care is a form of top-down, bureaucratized medicine run by the private sector instead of the federal government.
The law is supported by Republicans in Congress, and lawyers acting for the House of Representatives leadership are defending the law instead of the US government.
If we had an individual market for insurance, in which people bought insurance for themselves instead of through the government or their employers, these costs would shake out in a more appropriate way.
The NFA is similar to the CFTC and also oversees the broader futures and commodities markets, but instead of being a government agency, it is a private-sector self-regulatory organization authorized by Congress.
He questions whether the Founding Fathers would have welcomed the idea of people taking up arms against their newly hatched constitutional government instead of using governmental procedure to settle differences, which sometimes is referred to as the "ballots vs. bullets" debate.
Its evidence lists the practical problems to recovering the cost of treating diseases, and says a proposal to refund the money to the Welsh government instead of specific parts of the NHS "creates further complexity".
Since then, however, the FBI's struggles with technology have become legendary even by the standards of Washington, where agencies often must spend more to meet government requirements instead of using off-the-shelf software.
Instead of creating big new government programmes and projects, federal money tops up private channels.
Instead, the government of British Columbia widened the road between the sites.
So they had to rely either on support from large banks, major investors and the government instead of on the local community alone.
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India's recent elections stunned everyone there, enabling the dominant Congress Party to form a strong government instead of the previous, often unwieldy coalition.
We think that instead of penalising us the government should invest.
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And, more seriously, he has relied on opportunist thrusts at the government instead of defining a long-term strategy to deal with Labour's successful occupation of the centre ground.
Only a few years after the Great War turned the United States into a world power, he set out to shrink the size and reach of its government, to hark back instead of race forward.
To the embarrassment of the British, the Irish government has instead agreed with the Sinn Fein argument that Britain's unilateral suspension of the Northern Irish government was a violation of the Good Friday peace agreement.
Instead of courting controversy, the government should concentrate on educating the young and building a consensus among the old.
Instead of franchising monopolies, the government could encourage operators to compete head-to-head on many routes, just as airlines do.
The fear among solvent bankers is that most will be bailed out by the government, instead of the far better solution of simply shutting them down.
Instead of being compensated with Iranian government money, which sits in frozen accounts, they propose using money collected from fines against companies caught violating the embargo against Iran.
Instead of waiting for possibly more government intervention to force vendors to open up their silos of patient information, they formed the CommonWell Health Alliance to do it themselves.
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"Instead of playing favorites, our government should level the playing field for all alcohol fuels that break the monopoly of gasoline, both lowering gasoline prices and carbon emissions, " he said.
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However, NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre told the panel that the current background check system doesn't work, so expanding it would only create an unmanageable government bureaucracy instead of reducing gun crime.
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He also gave to the right the concept of compassionate conservatism: the idea that instead of simply pushing for less government, the Republicans should offer constructive proposals for what should take its place.
Observers point out acknowledging that there is work to be done by both parties, instead of only admonishing the Afghan government, could help bring Mr Karzai round to seeing his own failures and hopefully addressing them.
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