Democrats know that no matter how ineffective programs might be, if they have the right name on them, blacks will support them.

But in most places, this ineffective and costly program still holds sway.

By contrast, under a voluntary and largely ineffective program to control polluted runoff begun in 1987, it has never spent more than $50 million a year.

I continually seek to repeal unnecessary and ineffective programs and departments.

The Department of Agriculture has doled out $128 billion since 1980 on ineffective programs to hold down production and prop up prices.

That's why my bill replaces this ineffective program with a more effective system.

Dr. Levine called such programs "suboptimal if not completely ineffective."

Furthermore, a weak political response by the government can result in ineffective programs.

Of course, we always should be looking to remove wasteful spending and ineffective programs.

Unfortunately, the instruments shed little light on what about the ineffective programs made them so unsuccessful.