Sentences with phrase «agency spending levels»

Agency spending levels in the omnibus thus represent a step in the longer - term negotiation that will have to eventually involve the Senate and the White House.

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This is an extremely large increase, given that the Economic Action Plan stimulus spending was not expected to have a major impact in 2011 - 12 (remember it was originally supposed to be a two - year program only - 2009 - 10 and 2010 - 11) and that departmental / agency budgets were to be frozen in 2011 - 12 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

In the off - season, the Royals and the Angels spent millions attempting to reach the Athletics» level, while Oakland lost three players to free agency.

So, although it is certainly true that we should be spending more money on children in disadvantaged neighborhoods, the primary problem is that what we are already spending gets spent in really unhelpful ways, haphazard ways: different programs, different agencies, different levels of government.

The city Department of Investigation's probe of vehicle misuse at the agency, released in April, revealed that 21 senior - level DOC employees «routinely abused take - home vehicle privileges and cost City taxpayers thousands of dollars in wasted money spent on gas and tolls to cover personal trips.»

Continued Spending Discipline in Agency Operations: While certain financial maneuvers artificially lower the rate of total spending growth from 4.1 percent to 1.9 percent, the Executive Budget does continue spending discipline in agency operations.10 For example, full - time employees remain level at 182,565 after peaking at 199,916 in fiscal year 2009, and outside of a few targeted programs, agency costs are held to currentSpending Discipline in Agency Operations: While certain financial maneuvers artificially lower the rate of total spending growth from 4.1 percent to 1.9 percent, the Executive Budget does continue spending discipline in agency operations.10 For example, full - time employees remain level at 182,565 after peaking at 199,916 in fiscal year 2009, and outside of a few targeted programs, agency costs are held to current lAgency Operations: While certain financial maneuvers artificially lower the rate of total spending growth from 4.1 percent to 1.9 percent, the Executive Budget does continue spending discipline in agency operations.10 For example, full - time employees remain level at 182,565 after peaking at 199,916 in fiscal year 2009, and outside of a few targeted programs, agency costs are held to currentspending growth from 4.1 percent to 1.9 percent, the Executive Budget does continue spending discipline in agency operations.10 For example, full - time employees remain level at 182,565 after peaking at 199,916 in fiscal year 2009, and outside of a few targeted programs, agency costs are held to currentspending discipline in agency operations.10 For example, full - time employees remain level at 182,565 after peaking at 199,916 in fiscal year 2009, and outside of a few targeted programs, agency costs are held to current lagency operations.10 For example, full - time employees remain level at 182,565 after peaking at 199,916 in fiscal year 2009, and outside of a few targeted programs, agency costs are held to current lagency costs are held to current levels.

All told, the MTA board backed a $ 2.9 billion increase for capital spending, though there were warnings of the agency's rising debt level.

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.

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.

A reader forwarded this Oct. 31 letter to all agency commissioners from state Budget Director Bob Megna, who reiterated that «through the implementation of management efficiencies and the smart use of technology, your agency spending must not exceed» the cash ceiling level set in early May.

«The mayor continues to spend, and he's not doing enough to counterbalance that spending by finding savings at the agency level and growing the reserves.»

He was said to have regretted that such development could happen in the camps despite billions of naira spent by the different levels of government as well as donor agencies and philanthropists.

But as can be seen in Figure 1, following the Recovery Act and some early growth in regular appropriations, [1] most major science agencies spent most of their time below pre-Obama funding levels.

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.

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.

Those left most major research and development agencies at or near their pre-sequestration spending levels, even after adjusting for inflation, according to the AAAS analysis by Hourihan and David Parkes.

Trump's FY 2019 budget proposal, released February 12, includes a last - minute addendum that would keep science spending roughly at 2017 levels for some major research agencies, including NIH, NSF and the Department of Energy Office of Science.

(So far, the government has been funded by a series of so - called continuing resolutions that have essentially frozen agency spending at 2017 levels.)

The bipartisan compromise, proposed by moderate Senators Ben Nelson (D - NE) and Susan Collins (R - ME), chips away at funding levels for several research agencies that were contained in the original spending measure.

House appropriators last week advanced a half - dozen 2018 budget bills that mostly ignore Trump's proposed double - digit cuts, and chose to hold spending at many agencies roughly at current levels.

Although actual spending levels for all of these activities and more are determined by appropriations committees, the authorizing language represents the science committee's considered opinion about the relative importance of various research activities within those agencies.

Using detailed, ground - level data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Environmental Protection Agency, Cardenas and Kiel analyzed the waterways for sinuosity (how much they bend and curve); the texture of the materials along the waterways; the time spent in the sediment (known as the hyporheic zone); and the rate at which the water flows through the sediment.

The winner of the May runoff will go up against Representative John Culberson (R — TX), the influential chairman of a panel that sets spending levels for NASA, the National Science Foundation, and several other science agencies.

Research agencies may not know their final 2014 spending levels for many months, forcing them to spend conservatively.

The appropriations committee's 2015 spending level for NSF is actually $ 150 million higher than what President Barack Obama requested for the agency.

Suresh also reminds the community that a temporary spending measure holding agency budgets to 2012 levels will expire on 27 March.

Congress also extended current spending levels for other important science agencies, including the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy, for at least another month as part of a «continuing resolution.»

Spending at federal agencies for the 2017 fiscal year, which began last October, is currently frozen at 2016 levels through the end of April under a so - called continuing resolution.

The CR would hold federal agencies to 2016 spending levels until the end of April, which is halfway through the 2017 fiscal year.

For the past 7 months, the government has been operating under a continuing resolution that froze 2017 spending at most agencies at 2016 levels and generally prevented them from starting new programs.

«We're spending our time on the state level,» said Rome, who says he used to spend more of his time lobbying Capitol Hill and federal agencies.

In this new economic reality, we have to make difficult decisions and be efficient,» said Abbe Smith, a spokeswoman for the agency, pointing out that state spending is still above 2014 levels.

Since joining the Office of the Chief Financial Officer in 2005, she has led the launch of many high - priority, complex programs and initiatives including Federal Spending Transparency, the Department - wide Internal Control Program, and most recently, completing a three - year phased approach to implementing the Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act being one of the first cabinet level agencies to submit data files prior to the reporting deadline.

As you know I had completed my AAT level 4 in November and had been spending most of my [time] since building up my profile and presence on LinkedIn, registering with agencies, etc..

That means Congress merely passes a bill calling for an extension of the prior year's budget levels to buy more time for the appropriators to push through each federal agency's individual spending bills.