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(121) The United States has woefully underfunded its national infrastructure, according to a bipartisan congressional commission, the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission.

(122) "One way or the other they're going to reach out and move on," said James Thurber of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.

(123) Obama's proposal will run up against the congressional calendar as well as election-year politics.

(124) Congressional action this week will center on reducing emissions by raising vehicle fuel-efficiency standards, including those for SUVs.

(125) The plan is controversial, and has increased tensions with Russia, which views the future system as a threat, and has faced opposition from congressional Democrats.

(126) Titus, a Fourth Classman, was awarded the Congressional Medal of honor for gallantry at Peking, China, 14 August1900, while a soldier of the 14th United States Infantry.

(127) Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organize the Congressional Union, which later becomes the National Women's Party.

(128) Democratic source told CNN on condition of not being identified that Vice President Joe Biden had engaged in behind-the-scenes negotiations Sunday with congressional legislators.

(129) Redistribution of representation in a legislative body, especially the periodic reallotment of U. S. congressional seats according to changes in the census figures as required by the Constitution.

(130) Broad omnibus bills meant that many interest groups would be subject to the law's provisions, with producing and processing units located in every congressional district.

(130) Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!

(131) The Congressional Budget Office (usually known by its nickname, "the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office") projects inflation rates of less than 2 percent for the next decade.

(132) Britain's row over MPs'expenses and America's scandals over congressional lobbying have their own specific origins.

(133) A fierce battle was fought between Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and his Congressional ally James Madison during the Washington Administration.

(134) Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, just back from a congressional fact-finding mission, said he saw signs of progress in Iraq.

(135) All bills introduced during a two-year congressional term are designated "HR" in the House and "S" in the Senate, with consecutive numbers assigned in order in which they are introduced in each house.

(136) Today he represents Georgia’s 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

(137) For individuals, congressional aides stressed the new levy would be in addition to the existing tax system, both the regular income tax and the alternative minimum tax.

(138) He was a member of the Congress from Texas’ 12th congressional district from 1989 to 1997. During that time, he served on the House Armed Services Committee.

(139) This presidential and congressional jiggery-pokery is the height of public dishonesty.

(140) Once Democrats solidified a majority on the NLRB, they set out to push a pro-union policy agenda that never could pass congressional muster.

(141) The U.S. Treasury will next month issue a key currency report and contention over policy toward China could be magnified by mid-term Congressional elections in November.

(142) Senator McCain, who has been on a weeklong congressional "fact-finding" tour that has taken him to Iraq for the eighth time, said Iraq would likely be the key issue of the U.S. presidential election.

(143) This division was so diligent that in 1940, when a Congressional subcommittee investigated the W.P.A., it couldn't find a single serious irregularity that the division had missed.

(144) George Bailey: That's a lie! Harry Bailey went to war - he got the Congressional Medal of Honor, he saved the lives of every man on that transport.

(145) As far as I'm concerned, he should have the Congressional Medal of Honor.

(146) Then, Michigan Representative John Conyers gave her a job working in his congressional office in Detroit. She retired from that job in nineteen eighty-eight.

(147) As the New York Times has noted, congressional visitors to Iraq almost never have unscripted meetings with average Iraqis whose political views aren't already known.

(148) John Basilone got the Congressional Medal of Honor, and his life and his 6)exploits were very well documented for us, and so we could follow them.

(149) As a result, a congressional research arm estimates, the "net cost [to the government] is likely to be substantially less than $700 billion."

(150) And although concerns about biopiracy are widespread in Brazil, a member of the congressional committee investigating it says they have not found evidence for even a single case.