comptroller
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The comptroller directly controls about $2 billion of the city’s pension funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Even a former U.S. comptroller of the currency agrees.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Nathan Johnson also unseated state Sen. Don Huffines, a Dallas Republican that cycle; Johnson is now running for attorney general, and Huffines for comptroller.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Parents have to earn $334,000 to be able to comfortably afford child care for a 2-year-old, according to an analysis from the city’s comptroller.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
She says if I run for mayor she wants to be comptroller, of all things.”
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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On the plus side, the committee of two current and two former state and New York City comptrollers attached some important strings to lawmakers’ first pay raise in 20 years.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2018
Such midyear budget adjustments by the board, common in years when revenue was lower than expected, have “enabled countless governors, comptrollers and treasurers to actively manage the state’s finances,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2017
Those will be filled in and hammered out later by the Office of Management and Budget, the comptrollers of the various departments, and the relevant committees in Congress.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2017
It also includes signatures from treasurers or comptrollers from Rhode Island, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2015
Her executive comptrollers, Her ambassadors, electors, And her delegates intrusted, Her mechanics and inventors,— All her thinkers and her actors, Join in fellowship untarnished, Stand united in distinction.
From The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
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