Mr.Hatoyama's government has already proposed an additional 31 billion dollar stimulus package to bolster employment and economic growth.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Maine Senator Susan Collins was one of only three Republicans to back Mr.Obama's economic- stimulus package last month.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

One man wanted to know if California could get its hands on money from the president's stimulus package turned down by other states.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

Interrupting that cycle was a primary goal of President Obama's massive economic-stimulus package, which he championed almost immediately upon entering the White House.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

Specter has shown his independence as a Republican,most recently by becoming one of only three members of his party to vote for President Obama's economic stimulus package.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Ayumi Konishi, the Asia Development Bank's regional manager for Vietnam, says the government's success in steadying the economy has largely rested upon an $8.5 billion stimulus package.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

In a first reaction the EU's executive branch, the European Commission, said it was confident the Czech Republic could continue to "effectively preside over the European Union" despite the government losing a no-confidence vote in Prague Tuesday's vote of no confidence came after the opposition said the government came to late with a stimulus package of over three billion dollars to boost the ailing economy of this Eastern European nation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

This week, Germany's coalition government agreed to an economic aid package worth about 67 billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, a key figure behind this week's aid package, will visit Mexico early next month along with U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

U.S.officials maintain the aid package is meant to strengthen the bilateral relations and help Pakistan fight its growing insurgency led by Taliban militants.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

European Union ambassadors, meeting in Brussels,agreed Thursday to a new package of sanctions targeting Iran's energy sector.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

It's a tiny sliver of the total aid package of $1.6 billion the UN had asked for.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

President Obama and congressional Democrats want a health-care package approved before next year's midterm congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

It would give Pakistan But aspects of the aid program are generating objections from the Pakistani military which sees the package as impinging on the country's sovereignty.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

U.S.lawmakers said the language of the aid package could not be changed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

The U.S.Congress earlier this month unanimously approved the $7.5 billion aid package to help Pakistan improve health, education and security in the wake of rising militancy in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

The target pledges by the world's top-two carbon emitters are seen as hopeful signs for progress at Copenhagen, although a final package for global greenhouse gas reduction remains in doubt.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

But U.S.Senator John Kerry and Representative Howard Berman on Wednesday gave Qureshi a document stating that the package does not impose any conditions on Pakistan or infringe on its sovereignty.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

This guy had the total package,". Jackson's body has been released to his family and additional toxicology and pulmonary testing is under way to determine what caused the singer's untimely death.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27

Republicans also bitterly oppose the Democrat's plan to avoid Republican obstruction in a later Senate vote on the modified package with a process that would allow approval with a simple majority of 51 votes.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

U.S.Senator John Kerry, one of the authors of the aid package, is expected to arrive in Pakistan early next week to reassure Pakistani leaders that the United States does not intend to undermine their country's sovereignty.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

The package under which Pakistan is to get $1.5 billion in U.S.non-military aid in each of the next five years was hailed by both governments when it was overwhelmingly approved by the House and Senate last month.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

So,it's part of the global package and I expect that in the coming years this revaluation of Asian currency will take place reflecting the rapid growth in Asia, the important yield that capital inflow can find in Asia,and altogether, the increasing weight of Asia in the global economy."

VOA: standard.2009.11.13