1. Federal funds have to be used as dictated by Washington.

2. Bond yields are above the federal funds rate of 8.25%.

3. Y., has introduced a bill to ban federal funds from being spent on programs that teach ebonics as a language.

4. The Fed last trimmed its target for federal funds, or overnight loans between banks, on Dec. 19.

5. The United States has forbidden the use of federal funds for human cloning research.

6. In all, $ 2.2 million in federal funds was illegally diverted by those convicted, prosecutors said.

7. But the increasing availability of federal funds for conventional capital projects was clearly to the advantage of the departments.

8. Clinton is pushing Congress to chip in with federal funds.

9. They last lowered the benchmark federal funds target for loans between banks on Dec. 19.

10. Spending federal funds to employ chaplains for the armed forces might be said to violate the Establishment Clause.

11. It gives matching grants to help companies get federal funds and assists them in finding venture capital.

12. The Fed lowered the key federal funds rate on overnight bank loans twice last year, in July and December.

13. They said Congress' recent legislation banning federal funds for doctor-assisted suicide will make passage of any new state law more difficult.

14. That in turn could mean an end to federal funds.

15. Federal funds were not forthcoming.

16. Last year, both programs spent $ 260 billion in federal funds.

17. The markets are sending the opposite message to the Fed. Bond yields are above the federal funds rate of 8.25%.

18. Y.,[] this week introduced a resolution to prohibit the use of federal funds for educational programs based on its use.

19. Finally, we have noted that other constitutional provisions may provide an independent bar to the conditional grant of federal funds.

20. The governors supported turning over the Medicaid program to the states, with federal funds provided in block grants.

21. The President, however, makes it clear that there will be no increment in federal funds.

22. Medicaid is paid for by a combination of state and federal funds.

23. The two of them reversed Indianapolis' long-standing tradition of not taking federal funds, including money for school breakfasts.

24. That would have allowed them to collect nearly $ 2 in federal funds for each local dollar.

25. That penalty could be a hefty price, considering how many communities depend on federal funds.

26. Almond said he may ask President Clinton to declare Rhode Island a disaster area, clearing the way for federal funds.

27. I have asked the Secretary of Health and Human Services to work with Congress to take existing federal funds and use them to create "Affordable Choices" grants.

28. But officials at the Citizenship and Immigration Service point out that the agency receives no federal funds to process applications. Costs are covered entirely by fees charged.

29. The president's announcement did not address a related issue, whether or not to lift the ban on federal funds for research on embryos themselves.

30. The call money rate, the equivalent of the U.S. federal funds rate, was literally set equal to zero.

31. The federal funds rate will almost certainly be cut this month.

32. In addition, the thinning of the market and the fact that the market fails to capture some bank-to-bank lending undercuts the federal funds rate use as a borrowing cost benchmark.

33. The sort of standard stuff. They drove the nominal rates on the usual government paper down to zero, and they drove down the federal funds rate, so they don't have any more leeway on that.

34. The markets are betting it will soon cut its main federal funds rate.

35. Census data determines the distribution of federal funds and electoral district boundaries.

36. Some people, therefore propose that federal funds be provided to guarantee every homeless person a place to sleep if he or she wants one.

37. Although the program is administered by a federal agency, the Social Security Administration, it uses no federal funds.

38. I'm talking about four-week Treasury bills; 2.25% the Federal Funds Rate is still at 2.25% but at least the more prominent three-month T-bill rate is at the end.

39. This week's cut in Federal Fund's federal funds rate was larger than many economists had expected.

40. The committee last met August 9 when it announced it would keep the target range for the federal funds rate — the rate banks are charged for overnight loans — at 0 percent to 0.25 percent.

41. With federal funds soon to flow, some states may now cut back.

42. President Bush vetoed federal funds for research in the United States.

43. A low federal funds rate helps limit returns in the bond market.

44. The Federal Open Market Committee cut the federal funds rate by seventy-five basis points -- a week before it planned to meet.

45. The US central bank set its target range for the federal funds rate to between zero to 0.25%, citing deteriorating economic conditions.

46. The federal funds were a real shot in the arm far the small farming community.