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He’s done that mainly by using OMB, the White House office that oversees spending, to control the day-to-day purse strings of federal agencies — and deliberately keeping Congress in the dark along the way.

There were also tensions and petty jealousies between different sets of increasingly overwhelmed foster parents and with Sothea, who controlled the project’s purse strings.

In the current, so-called third design generation, the hood slopes down to form the stiff upper lip of a mouth pursed with purpose.

That is Article I, Section 9—the bedrock of Congress’s power of the purse.

Windsor, wearing a grey sweatshirt, sighed and pursed his lips in the dock as the verdicts were announced.