is running into resistance from a scattered group of health care and community activists, according to information obtained by The Record.

Sources say that negotiators for the state Senate presented a scaled-down version … (read more)

Early in 1999, U.S. Representative Nancy L. Johnson (R-CT), chair of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources, which has jurisdiction over TANF, sent a letter to the governors of all 50 states urging them to spend more of their TANF funds or risk having Congress take some portion back. This warning was made more concrete by several congressional attempts later in 1999 to rescind some unspent TANF funds. Fortunately, from the perspective of the states and from… (read more)

March 27, 2000. New from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, andhis property to the government of Honduras, the remainder to relatives in the U.S. Because of measures taken by the Honduran government, Burke's heirs in the U.S. received nothing.

See also
James "Honest Dick" Tate – a Kentucky state Treasurer who also fled the country once his fraud was discovered.

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