Additionally, the county commission rejected a stimulus proposal that would have called for five new buses.

Mr. Clinton expended much of his political capital on the stimulus proposal, making him vulnerable to future assaults by Republicans.

Both the Democrats and the Republicans, in their stimulus proposals, assume, without ever saying so, that productivity will rise enough to help companies justify new investment.

Finally, I authorized the development of the $20 billion one-shot stimulus proposal to increase economic activity in the short run.

But everyone expected that in the end Congress would extend benefits whatever the status of other stimulus proposals.

Safe drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects were a priority in the President's stimulus proposal.

But yesterday, investors cheered the president's economic stimulus proposal, and sent stocks upward in a broad rally.

That talk has faded, particularly after Congressional Republicans defeated the President's economic stimulus proposal a year ago.

Obama's most immediate concern was an economic stimulus proposal that some Congressional Democrats had advocated.

This violates the basic principle that stimulus proposals should be only short-term.