Hawai`i Superferry has spent $210,000 since last summer to lobby for federal money to install features on its second high-speed catamaran to make it more attractive f or military use....Superferry paid Blank Rome LLC, a prominent law and lobbying firm, to try to obtain federal money through the National Defense Features program to cover the cost o...

The new federal money would be small change compared to what the NEA wants to get from states. The union is proposing that federal law require each state to write a "adequacy and equity" plan. The document would detail the inequities in ...

ZANESVILLE, OHIO -- Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to expand a controversial White House program that funnels federal money to religious charities, embracing a core piece of President Bush's legacy as he tries to win over Republican-leaning evangelical ...

He wants to give more federal money to religious groups and has reportedly gone as far as saying that these agencies should be able to hire and fire based on faith....If these organizations are going to receive federal money, they must be subject to the same standards of accountability which secular agencies must meet....In addition, for religious organizations to receive federal money, such organizations must be subject to federal anti-discrimination law....Obama does not support requiring religious tests for recipients of aid nor using federal money to proselytize, according to a campaign fa

Sen. Obama does not support requiring religious tests for recipients of aid nor using federal money to proselytize, ... What sophistry. The Federal government doesn’t give money to organizations that violate the law ... Federal taxpayer money, it agrees to adhere to Federal law. Otherwise, don’t take the money. Hey Obama

... eviewers received no federal money at all....But instead of the money being spent for what Congress intended it, the agency's funding more recently flowed to programs with political, social or religious connections t o the White House....But the agency also doles out more than a quarter of a billion dollars in federal grant money every year-with little congressional oversight or attention with the p ublic....

Fort Wayne, Ind. (WANE) More than half of 2008 & 2007 homicides in Fort Wayne took place within about ten square miles of the city. It's a problem that Fort Wayne Police are tackling, in part, with federal money. A look at the list of 2007 and 2008 ...

CLEVELAND -- Ohio has the only attorney general with a full-time lobbyist in Washington to help the state get more federal money, a newspaper investigation found. Attorney General Marc Dann pays $98,000 to Craig Mehall - who had no Washington ...

Officials in northern Idaho's Bonner County face risking the loss of federal money for improvements at Sandpoint Airport.

With great fanfare, Congress adopted strict ethics rules last year requiring members to disclose when they steered federal money to pet projects. But it turns out lawmakers can still secretly direct billions of dollars to favored ...