But he did not have to do that, as the Senate voted down the funding 58 to 40.
VOA: standard.2009.07.21
If you got the right idea, you will get some funding.
如果你找到正确的方法,就能得到注资。
Along with protecting local Afghans and reducing violence are new efforts to cut off the funding of the Taliban and other Afghan insurgents.
VOA: standard.2009.06.15
He said Pakistan's new democracy needs the funding to build roads, improve health care and combat poverty, and called for the bill's swift approval.
VOA: standard.2009.05.12
But six months later, only about half of the funding for agriculture has come through.
VOA: standard.2010.07.16
Finance ministers of the 24 advanced and developing economies said the funding increase takes effect immediately with the money coming from the agency's 185 member nations.
VOA: standard.2009.04.26
Hande worked with banks to secure the funding so householders could buy the devices.
VOA: standard.2009.12.18
States and local governments provide most of the funding for the nation's schools.
VOA: standard.2010.02.22
says Indigenous peoples living in the Amazon Basin would make effective use of the funding that forest credits could generate, "It brings resources in the hands of those who have been the stewards of this land for generations,"
VOA: standard.2009.12.17
Our facilities are clearly understaffed." The International Confederation of Midwives says with the support of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and large non-profit organizations, it is more optimistic about getting the funding needed to recruit these new trainees and deploy them into the communities where they are needed.
VOA: standard.2010.06.15
Director-General Margaret Chan says the agency is "overextended" and faces "serious funding shortfalls."
VOA: special.2011.01.19
Activists like Sharon Ekambaram, a spokesperson for Doctors Without Borders, say if the U.S.cuts funding, other countries will do the same.
VOA: standard.2010.07.17
And the U.S.Congress should approve more funding to Mexico for training, equipment and other initiatives to fight the drug trade.
VOA: standard.2010.05.17
The World Health Organization is calling for the recruitment, training and funding of at least 330-thousand new midwives in these regions.
VOA: standard.2010.06.15
But Warren says the good news comes at a time when researchers are facing a big obstacle - limited funding.
VOA: standard.2010.07.15
(VOICE) Kane says $30 million in new funding announced at the conference in Mauritania will help national fistula programs across Africa.
VOA: standard.2009.12.23
Overall,Barroso said, the EU has decided to boost its humanitarian emergency funding to Pakistan more than tenfold, to about $100 million.
VOA: standard.2009.06.17
The United Nations World Food Program says Chad could be the first country to fall victim to this funding crisis.
VOA: standard.2009.08.02
Gates said he would like to see more Asian support for funding Afghanistan's security and building the country's institutions.
VOA: standard.2009.05.30
The House of Representatives also dropped funding for Guantanamo's closure in its version of the war funding legislation, which passed last week.
VOA: standard.2009.05.20
"If the drugs ended tomorrow, it would not have a major effect on the Taliban source of funding,"
VOA: standard.2009.06.15
Despite the cuts, President Obama's proposed budget increases NASA's funding by $6 billion over the next five years.
VOA: standard.2010.04.15
The Postal Service also wants to shut down some post offices and cut back on funding health care for retired mail carriers.
VOA: standard.2010.04.13
Yemeni officials say the international funding is not nearly enough to combat poverty, which they say is the real security threat in Yemen.
VOA: standard.2010.04.20
Holbrooke says the long-held notion that Afghanistan's illicit opium trade is the main source of funding for the insurgency is simply not true.
VOA: standard.2009.06.15
They count on this festival to provide funding for all the projects they do throughout the year.
VOA: standard.2010.06.07
Many governments provide funding for their Olympic teams, but the private U.S.Olympic Committee depends on other sources.
VOA: standard.2010.02.21
That budget would end funding for the Constellation program, which would have returned U.S.astronauts to the moon as a stepping stone to Mars.
VOA: standard.2010.04.15
The action came as senators debated a $91-billion funding bill for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
VOA: standard.2009.05.20
"Provide more funding to the IMF and maybe boosting the role of the IMF in the crisis,"
VOA: standard.2009.04.01
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