Sentences with phrase «a massive spending bill»

Congress is set to vote on a massive spending bill on Thursday night to avoid a government shutdown.

We need to give the public the opportunity to review, discuss and express its opinions on this massive spending bill before a vote is cast.

A massive spending bill to provide money for five Cabinet departments for the upcoming budget year is about to hit the Senate floor, giving senators a rare opportunity for open debate on legislation of any kind.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- A massive spending bill that funds the U.S. government for the rest of the budget year passed the Senate on Tuesday despite complaints about nearly $ 8 billion in what critics called «pork - barrel» projects.

But now the program is ready for a comeback, thanks to a provision in the recently passed massive spending bill for 2005 that not only reinstates the H - 1B fee but raises it to $ 1500.

The massive spending bill also includes several policy and tax provisions.

Education Week's Alyson Klein reports that the massive spending bill signed into law on March 23 will provide more than a billion dollars to ESSA's Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants (a.k.a. Title IV of the law).

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House attributes the rosier U.S. outlook to federal tax cuts, a massive US$ 300 - billion spending package and the possibility of an additional spending or infrastructure bill.

Consider the Fed's hike in interest rates on March 21, the passing of a massive $ 1.3 trillion spending bill on March 23 that dramatically widened the federal deficit, the resignation of former director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn on March 6, the firing of former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13, the tariff tantrum between the U.S. and China on March 1 and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

But Manchester United and Man City spent massive amount of money in the summer transfer of 2016 and 2017 to bring in top talent which ultimately increased their yearly wage bill.

Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

Congressional leaders have clinched an agreement on a massive $ 1.3 trillion spending bill that President Donald Trump, for now, appears grudgingly willing to support.

House Speaker Paul Ryan warned New York and New Jersey Republicans that he won't allow funds for the Gateway project to be included in a massive spending package if it will cause Trump to veto the bill, according to GOP lawmakers.

Congress hadn't even left town when political campaigns in some of the most competitive House and Senate races zeroed in on Friday's vote on a massive government spending bill.

Solar panel installations will get another five - years of tax credit under the massive tax and spending bill approved in Congress last week.

A debate over a massive education, labor and ethics bill lasted for more than six hours in the chamber on Tuesday and Assembly Republicans called a conference on a capital projects spending bill at 10 minutes to midnight.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2013 campaign was given a massive boost when the city's largest union endorsed him, but that union hasn't spent a dime on his re-election campaign.

Ultimately, the measure was tucked into a massive education bill that included spending increases for school aid and an end to education cuts under the Gap Elimination Adjustment, a long - sought goal for Senate Republicans.

Democrats» efforts to include debt restructuring powers for Puerto Rico in the House's massive omnibus spending bill fell short, yielding only a commitment from Republican leadership to work on legislation that would help the ailing island by next spring.

House Majority Leader Matthew Ritter, D - Hartford, insisted the focus of the bill is to allow people to know who is contributing to «super PACs» that can spend massive amounts of money on campaigns.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2013 campaign was given a massive boost when NYC's largest union — 1199 SEIU — endorsed him, but that union hasn't spent a dime on his re-election campaign.

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The Senate yesterday released its markup of the massive stimulus package, an $ 825 billion spending and tax bill meant to revitalize the U.S. economy.

Spending on basic agricultural research in the United States could grow significantly thanks to a massive farm bill that Congress approved overwhelmingly last week.

A massive fiscal 2018 federal spending bill unveiled by congressional leaders Wednesday night includes a provision urging the heads of EPA, the Energy Department and the Agriculture Department to adopt policies that «reflect the carbon - neutrality of forest bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable energy source.»

Although Congress narrowly passed a bill avoiding the so - called fiscal cliff on January 1, the agreement only staves off massive decreases in spending until March when legislators must revisit the deal.

The bill doubled the amount of money private donors could give to political parties, removed the cap on how much political parties could spend to support candidates participating in the public finance system and created a massive loophole by allowing candidates, in this case Malloy, to better coordinate their activities with political parties and other political action committees.

The bankruptcy laws were written to give people a fresh start, especially those whose financial troubles were not the result of careless spending, but something unexpected like loss of a job, a divorce, or a catastrophic illness resulting in massive medical bills.

While cash back cards don't typically come with massive sign - up bonuses (unlike travel cards, which can give you hundreds of dollars in travel when you meet the minimum spend), they can help you rack up money that you can use to offset wedding bills.

Our goal for the ad we ran in January opposing the so - called «stimulus» bill was to make the point that not all economists agree that the economy could be fixed only by massive government spending and intervention.

For tech's «big five» (Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft), a massive push in Washington — reflected in a 24.3 percent quarter over quarter spike in lobbying spending, much of which was focused directly on the tax bill — just paid off in spades.

Perhaps you missed President Donald Trump's shifty little political move last week on that massive congressional spending bill.

The House approved a massive $ 1.3 trillion spending bill Thursday that includes language that's likely to render moot a Supreme Court case involving the government's search and seizure of data stored...

He hailed increased funding to combat the opioid crisis that was included in the massive federal spending bill passed last week after touring the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Mary's Medical Center, which typically provides care for four to five opioid - addicted babies at a time.