1.   In addition, cuts in Via Rail services and reductions in other federal expenditures had not proved to be politically popular.

2.   Aerospace companies are merging in the face of withering competition for declining federal expenditures.

3.   But federal expenditures for nutrition education is minuscule.

4.   Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars in federal expenditures involved, responsibility for policing the system is turned over to dozens of independent contractors.

5.   Entitlement programs, government pensions, defense and debt interest account for all but one-sixth of federal expenditures.

6.   Federal expenditures are now made through an operating budget, which he says discourages investment.

7.   He urges federal expenditures for the exploration and settlement of Mars and for a human presence that could exploit natural resources in the distant reaches of the solar system.

8.   McCaffrey emphasized federal expenditures have significantly increased over the past few years for drug abuse prevention.

9.   Republicans won cuts in capital gains taxes and federal estate taxes as well as spending cuts to satisfy some of their demands for reduced federal expenditures.

10.   That would make inaccuracies in the CPI responsible for the fourth largest federal expenditure, after Social Security, health care and defense.