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To: Mariner
Since December, BCFS has received more than $280 million in federal grants...

Do 'grants' have to be approved by Congress; or has the grantor received a LARGE wad of money at the getgo and then parcels it out as it sees fit??

109 posted on 08/05/2014 6:49:59 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Do ‘grants’ have to be approved by Congress; or has the grantor received a LARGE wad of money at the getgo and then parcels it out as it sees fit??


That’s what I’ve been wondering....if anyone has an answer, please ping. Thanks.


114 posted on 08/05/2014 6:55:38 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Elsie

I recall a senator some years ago say that congressional committees didn’t even look at amounts less than .1 billion dollars. That’s $100 million!

Since no single grant was that large, only a very few really interested congressmen would ever notice.

There are very, very few prosecutions or even admissions of misspent grant money.


117 posted on 08/05/2014 6:59:20 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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