Any big public project in Brazil provides opportunities for expensive pork-barrel politics in a legislature that can make high drama out of even routine spending bills.

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By August 2nd, we run out of tools to make sure that all our bills are paid.

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The folks out there who, at the end of the month, are sitting around the kitchen table, trying to figure out, how am I going to make all these bills.

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" It asked President Barack Obama to "make a concerted effort to get the restrictive language about using federal funds ... out of future appropriations bills.

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