21.  And Minnesota, he said, always seems to pay out more federal money than it gets it back.

22.  And second, Edelman added, the new federal grant allows states more flexibility on how to spend the federal money.

23.  And it is true that the King Center receives federal money to plan and carry out the official celebration of the King holiday each year.

24.  And Gore has been an outspoken opponent of using federal money to help pay for private schooling.

25.  And he proposed raising the stakes with his plan, recently unveiled, to take federal money from failing public schools.

26.  And more improvements are on the way if federal money is available.

27.  And in many instances, he may have to make federal money available to finance them.

28.  And state lawmakers are demanding federal money for more inspectors on the border to handle the incoming trucks as NAFTA trade continues to boom.

29.  And some warn that accepting federal money can strip a private program of the flexibility that made it successful in the first place.

30.  And more than half of that is federal money.