But now,right now, I don't go to Nairobi, I just pay my bill from here."

VOA: special.2009.11.02

The bill from Democratic Senator Charles Schumer and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham seeks to reinforce border controls and calls for the creation of a high-tech Social Security card to ensure that employers hire only legal workers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

Clay especially wanted approval of a bill to give the different states money from the sale of public land.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Grameen had money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to bring agricultural information to rural farmers.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

The other bill changed the list of officials who could become president, if the president and vice president died or were removed from office.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

"It was a bill of sale from William Johnson, eighteen thirty-two, for five hundred dollars.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

Most criminals stayed away from a town where Bill Tilghman was the marshal.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The bill provided 700 billion dollars to buy hard-to-value securities from banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

Senator William Allison, a Republican from Iowa, proposed a different tariff bill.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

"Everybody in higher education benefits from almost all of this bill."

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Julie Heckman is a Tea Party supporter from Maryland who attended the rally against the Democrat's health-care bill.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

The jobs bill allocates money to the states. From New York State, Yonkers will receive $6.5 million, which will save 90 teachers.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Democratic Congressman Charles Gonzalez from Texas says he's optimistic a reform bill can pass this year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

The Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday passed a bill which would end taxpayer bailouts of big banks and protect consumers from abusive financial practices.

VOA: standard.2010.04.24

He said billions of dollars from the economic stimulus bill he signed last month will go to encourage and support energy research and development.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

In his weekly address, President Obama says the reform bill is an ambitious effort to protect consumers from some of the financial industry's worst abuses.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

League of Conservation Voters president Gene Karpinski says opposition from the oil industry is another major roadblock to congressional passage of a comprehensive climate bill.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Slim,whose real name is Bill Homans, has come a long way from his job as a heavy equipment operator for the U.S.Army during the Vietnam War.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Rossman points to a string of e-mails from colleagues around the world who call the bill misguided, and see it as an example of California foolishness.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

It is a forum set up by former President Bill Clinton to encourage leaders from government,business,academia and other fields to join forces to deal with global challenges.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Lincoln has endorsements from President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

The president says the bill will subject large and small banks to tougher oversight, and prevent banks from taking so much risk they could collapse and threaten the economy.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

Earlier this month, as part of a energy and water funding bill, the Senate approved a provision preventing companies selling or shipping gasoline to Iran from supplying oil to the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on legislation identical to the House bill, and a separate provision also mirroring House action to encourage financial divestment from Iran by U.S.companies and pension funds.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"Those who come after us will work on our product. They will make it better, they will make it stronger, they will find our shortcomings in this bill,they will add to it, they will subtract from it.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Kyl was speaking in support of an amendment to the $91.3-billion Senate version of the 2009 Iraq-Afghanistan war supplemental bill, aimed at preventing U.S.government funds from going to companies involved in selling refined petroleum products to Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

"I am confident and hopeful that he will now - getting this clear message from both the House and Senate on the appropriations bill - begin to rethink the appropriateness of an arbitrary timeline for the closing of Guantanamo,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Negotiations with the House of Representatives to craft a final bill for President Obama will be difficult because of some major differences, notably the House bill's provision for a government-run health insurance option, absent from the Senate measure.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24