In fact, there are few government programs that pass the growth test.

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Legislators are now scurrying to pass a measure exempting watershed programs from the law.

FORBES: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

This morning, President Obama urged Congress to pass a clean extension of key transportation programs as soon as possible.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Tells Congress to Pass Extensions

To pass muster with the Internal Revenue Service, such programs should generally be established well ahead of an owner's retirement and pay "reasonable" amounts, White Horse's Mr. Ungashick says.

WSJ: Family Value: A Big Break for Family Businesses

All offer populist programs, which seems to buy them a pass at election time.

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Yet the new GOP budget, which the House is likely to pass on Thursday, would slash the very federal programs that provide the infrastructure this vulnerable poulation needs to stay at home.

FORBES: Why Do Hill Republicans Want to Make Home and Community Care So Hard?

In the 1980s and 1990s, the pair helped pass bills to fund child care, AIDS treatment and prevention programs, and children's health insurance, among other things.

NPR: Kennedy's Illness Casts Pall over Congress

The phone can also store loyalty programs, present offers, work as a boarding pass and eventually pay at electronic turnstyles, like the London underground, or as announced today, New Jersey Transit trains and buses.

FORBES: Peering Through Technology Mists to See Customer Needs

And we saw that on Thursday afternoon when they were not able to pass the biggest spending bill of the year, which governs labor, health, education, most of the social programs of the federal government in one bill.

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