Sentences with phrase «agencies funding bill»

She also foresees language attached to science agency funding bills that prevents them from spending money on certain areas or types of projects.

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If passed by the Senate, the spending bill would fund all government agencies through September 2015, except for the Department of Homeland Security, which would get an extension only through Feb. 27.

Congress on Dec. 21 averted a shutdown just one day before federal funding was due to expire, sending Trump a bill to provide just enough money to keep agencies operating through Jan. 19.

At least 30 % of the fund's total assets must be invested in Weekly Liquid Assets, which can consist of cash, direct obligations of the U.S. government such as U.S. Treasury bills, certain other U.S. government agency debt that is issued at a discount and matures within 60 days or less, or securities that will mature or are payable within 5 business days.

UNFPA's latest update to its report on member - state contributions shows that eight wealthy European countries, along with Canada and Japan, pay 86 percent of the $ 389 million bill to fund that agency, which aggressively promotes population control.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

The campaign fights such «license to discriminate» bills on the state and federal level and builds support for the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, a federal bill prohibiting child welfare agencies that receive taxpayer funds from discriminating against LGBTQ youth or prospective foster and adoptive parents.

Both Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agree that the agency needs new sources of funding, but each has their own plan to implement them.

«I think right now the votes are not there to pass that bill collectively on the floor of the House,» the Virginia Democrat said of the continuing resolution to fund most federal agencies through March 23 that is to carry the budget deal.

Washington (CNN)- The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $ 447 billion spending bill that funds several Cabinet departments and other agencies for the 2010 budget year - money needed to keep government funded after next week.

For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a second - term Democrat, it poses the annual opportunity to lobby for the city's priorities, including small and large policy changes and additional funding for city agencies.

A spending bill that funds watchdog agencies overseeing Wall Street will offer lawmakers one of their last opportunities to undercut President Barack Obama's signature financial overhaul before the November elections.

Senate Bill 284 forces the Kansas Department for Children and Families to include foster and adoption agencies, including those that receive public funds, in its programs even if they refuse to place children in LGBT homes.

The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority stands to lose about $ 3.6 million a year in federal funding — and agencies statewide would lose $ 100 million — thanks to a little - noticed amendment to a House transportation bill that passed last week.

The list of 894 C.B.O.s unveiled by Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday as recipients of state funding to implement universal pre-K in the fall include at least 486 that have active infractions from the buildings agency.

ELIZABETHTOWN The omnibus government spending bill passed by Congress and signed by the president last month rejects deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and fully funds the agency at 2017 spending lAgency (EPA) and fully funds the agency at 2017 spending lagency at 2017 spending levels.

Wildfire Funding and Environmental Reviews — Vote Passed (232 - 188, 12 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would allow for a presidential declaration of a major disaster with regard to wildfires, which would allow for the release of funding from Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund to fight major wildfires, and would modify the disaster cap under the Budget Control Act to account for expected wildfire fundingFunding and Environmental Reviews — Vote Passed (232 - 188, 12 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would allow for a presidential declaration of a major disaster with regard to wildfires, which would allow for the release of funding from Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund to fight major wildfires, and would modify the disaster cap under the Budget Control Act to account for expected wildfire fundingfunding from Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund to fight major wildfires, and would modify the disaster cap under the Budget Control Act to account for expected wildfire fundingfunding needs.

Short - Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations — Vote Passed (235 - 193, 5 Not Voting) The House passed the joint resolution that would provide funding for federal government operations and services at current levels through Dec. 22, 2017, at an annualized rate of $ 1.23 trillion for federal departments and agencies covered by the 12 unfinished fiscal 2018 spending bills.

Emergency Hurricane Harvey Supplemental Appropriations — Vote Passed (419 - 3, 11 Not Voting) Frelinghuysen, R - N.J., motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution that would provide for the House to concur in the Senate amendments to a bill (HR 601) that would codify practices and programs at the United States Agency for International Development related to U.S. education assistance abroad, with further amendment that would appropriate $ 7.9 billion in emergency supplemental funding for fiscal 2017 as an initial payment to cover the costs of responding to Hurricane Harvey.

The bill would allow faith - based adoption agencies, including those that receive public funds, to turn away would - be parents on the basis of their marital status or religion and religious beliefs.

In 2014, West authored Senate Bill 158, which funds Texas law enforcement agencies to purchase body - worn cameras («body cams»).

In addition, the agency has been caught in the middle of a public feud between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over how New York City Transit should be funded and improved.

Yesterday, in the cathedral to mass transit known as Grand Central Terminal, four members of New York's congressional delegation joined labor leaders and M.T.A. chairman Joe Lhota to rail against a House transportation bill that would theoretically deprive the transit agency that runs city subways and buses of more than $ 1 billion a year in federal funding.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled the first executive budget of his tenure on Thursday, a $ 73.9 billion spending plan that manages to fund his political priorities without widespread agency cuts or tax increases, thanks to higher - than - expected revenues and spending from two reserve funds.

Then, too, the speaker aims to fund his subsidy (and other initiatives beyond what Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed for the nearly $ 90 billion city budget) from some iffy sources: ordering city agencies to find new savings and getting $ 1.25 billion in higher tax revenues — including $ 50 million more in administrative fines.

HR 4660 is a boring and relatively bland appropriations Bill that will fund various agencies of the Government.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

The agency does not have a timeline or funding for the site yet, as Mayor Bill de Blasio wanted to create a $ 50 million indoor pool in the borough before proceeding with the recreation center project.

Fiscal 2018 Intelligence Authorization — Vote Passed (380 - 35, 18 Not Voting) The House passed the bill that would authorize classified amounts of funding through fiscal 2018 for 16 U.S. intelligence agencies and intelligence - related activities, including the Office of the National Intelligence Director, the CIA and the National Security Agency.

The Republicans controlling the House of Representatives and Senate have been at odds over whether to pass the House's DHS funding bill, which would fund the agency but blocks financing for President Barack Obama's controversial plan to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation through an executive order.

Green groups are praising New York's Congressional delegation for their efforts to preserve funding for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2018 spending bill.

Because final program - by - program allocations of R&D funding are not available until several months after appropriations actions, AAAS estimates of R&D are based on agency data, historical trends for R&D within appropriations, appropriations bill language, committee report language, and other supplementary data, and should be considered estimates at all times.

Raising the spending caps does not automatically mean science agencies will now get a spending increase: Congress still needs to agree on a catch - all omnibus appropriations bill that reflects this new higher spending level, and lays out funding for individual agencies and programs.

While the Senate's counterpart bill has not yet emerged from the subcommittee that funds NASA, Sen. Richard Shelby, R - Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, raised concerns about spending cuts included in the White House budget blueprint.

In another important spending bill that funds science programs that Senate appropriators have not yet taken up, the House Appropriations Committee approved July 13 the fiscal 2018 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies measure that would give NASA a $ 219 million boost above 2017 enacted levels.

This matches Obama's 2013 budget request to Congress in February (see Nature 482, 283 — 285; 2012), but contrasts with the Senate version of the spending bill, which boosts the agency's funding by about $ 100 million.

The bill would also create what he calls the Cures Acceleration Network, an independent federal agency, funded at $ 2 billion a year, that would attempt to bridge the so - called valley of death between discovering a potential drug and testing it in patients.

That level could end up being a cut, however, after Congress completes work on a bill to fund federal agencies through 2018.

That worldview is reflected in a $ 51 billion spending bill approved by the House on 4 June to fund NSF, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and several other federal agencies.

Most tabs cover the major funding accounts and programs by agency, and also include basic information on spending bill progress.

Democrat legislators on the appropriations committee made several attempts yesterday to increase funding for specific programs and agencies within the bill.

Under H.R. 1431, a House - passed bill sponsored by Lucas, no member of one panel, the Science Advisory Board, could have current EPA grants or contracts; members would be barred from applying for agency funding for three years after their term ends.

Trump's draconian budget request — which suggested drastic cuts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others — was rejected by Congress, and a spending bill that increases funding for science at many federal agencies was signed into law.

The bill preserves the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery, but trims its budget 8 %, to $ 334 million.

Research and development (R&D) spending is mostly concentrated in six major spending bills that encompass programs in nine federal departments and at least nine other agencies, and includes both discretionary accounts — spending that Congress adjusts and allocates annually — and mandatory accounts — direct spending that has dedicated funding streams established by law.

She urged legislators to maintain a consistent and predictable funding outlook for the agency, something that hasn't happened in recent years as Congress has failed to agree on funding bills and long - term budget plans.

Senator Tom Coburn (R - OK) is holding up Senate consideration of the 2010 spending bill that funds the Department of Energy, concerned that the bill ensures public access to various reports that lawmakers require agencies to make.

For one, her managers are furiously trying to plan three fiscal years at once: the current fiscal year, which started in October but is being funded under a temporary spending bill that ends on 6 March, the 2010 budget, which agencies are still negotiating with the White House, and the 2011 budget, which will represent the first full budget submission by the Obama Administration to Congress.

«Last month a House of Representatives panel approved a spending bill that would give [NIH] a $ 1.1 billion raise next year, with some of the new money coming from zeroing out funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery.

• Last Friday on ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser reported that «Congress took a small step toward expanding a requirement that science agencies make federally funded research papers publicly available,» in the form of a 1 - year provision found on page 1020 of the 1582 - page spending bill approved last week.