Such a move might allow him to cut $300 million or more from expenditures.

Applying the multiplier of 1.8 (see para 3.28), the induced income arising from personal expenditures can be calculated.

They complained that the Kaufman campaign had benefited from expenditures from a political action committee controlled by Republicans.

Generally excluded from military expenditures is spending on internal law enforcement and disabled veteran rehabilitation.

"The economic front will be complicated by the stress on the federal budget from high election-year expenditures," he said.

The question is how, given the Supreme Court restraints, can you have a comprehensive approach that deals with everything from independent expenditures to soft money.

By making this optional, as originally intended, Congress shaved $4 billion from projected expenditures.

Over the long run, a national policy of support for greater public investment should involve a direct shift from military expenditures to public-works spending.

The 5 percent minimum does not preclude a nonprofit from additional expenditures and, as the writers note, many do finance above this limit.

In this recession, he noted, households and business had unusually high debt ratios, which have been keeping them from increasing expenditures.