Sentences with phrase «budget balancing amendments»

The Legislature unanimously approved a plan to create the Opioid Response Hotline, committed funding for hazardous lead abatement, and passed a budget balancing amendment package that invests in Erie County while sending millions back to fund balance that the County Executive wanted to spend on various items.

Not exact matches

He'd eliminate the payroll tax, and he favors a constitutional amendment that would require a balanced budget.

Kentucky senator Rand Paul has said he'd seek a balanced budget amendment, and that he'd also shrink spending, limiting it to only what comes in via tax revenue.

Now that conservatives complained about the $ 1.3 trillion catchall spending bill — which blew through previous budget limits by $ 300 billion over this year and next, House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote this week on a proposed amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.

He favors passing a balanced budget amendment, as well as giving Congress audit authority over the Federal Reserve.

In a two - step plan, Boehner is pressing for a vote on Wednesday and a second vote Thursday on a balanced - budget amendment to the Constitution.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

Fiscal rules are good, but the proposed balanced budget amendment would destabilize the economy.

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The House failed to pass a balanced budget constitutional amendment.

House Republicans planned to hold a vote on April 12 to add a balanced - budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The House of Representatives will vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution on Thursday.

1) Repeal Obamacare; Pursue Patient - Centered Care 2) Stop the Tax Hikes 3) Reverse Obama's Spending Increases 4) Scrap the Code; Replace It with a Flat Tax 5) Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment 6) Reject Cap and Trade 7) Rein in the EPA 8) Unleash America's Vast Energy Potential 9) Eliminate the Department of Education 10) Reduce the Bloated Federal Workforce 11) Curtail Excessive Federal Regulation 12) Audit the Fed

There is in fact a petition drive directed at state legislatures by politically conservative groups who are particularly interested in adopting a «balanced budget» amendment.

Some veteran observers believe the Legislature's best bet in the long term for righting what he and others see is a lopsided budget power balance is a constitutional amendment.

«By removing vital revenue increases and relying on projections that are too aggressive, the budget is no longer responsibly balanced and NIFA will have no choice but to reject the document if the amendments are adopted,» Barsky said.

The claim is that they want to pass a balanced budget amendment.

Buerkle decided to cast her lot with the Tea Partiers who felt the deal House Speaker Boehner agreed to — which did not included a balanced budget amendment — did not go far enough.

«Republicans burned down our fiscal house, and now you show up with a so - called balanced budget amendment and act like the volunteer fire department.

Rob supports a Balanced Budget Amendment, and he led the effort and got the entire Republican caucus to agree on his pro-growth Senate Republican Jobs Plan.

The drive for an amendment to limit the Supreme Court's legislative apportionment decisions came within one State of the required number, and a proposal for a balanced budget amendment has been but two States short of the requisite number for some time.

For example, there was a balanced budget amendment proposal with four options.

«They may have to come back sooner and pass an amendment to the budget that makes some changes and brings the budget into balance.

I think that the balance of powers in the budget process needs to be changed back to something like that and I believe that the constitutional amendments proposed in A4630 would do a decent job in that regard.

The amendment (S1) that will be on the ballot on November 8, 2005, on the other hand, gets at the «balance of powers» question in a very convoluted and inadequately defined way that would make the state budget process even messier and more complicated than it currently is.

It also fights for election reform, lobbying reform, a balanced budget amendment and term limits.

Earlier this year, it broke with the House leadership over what the group saw as insignificant spending cuts in the debt ceiling deal, urging Speaker John Boehner to negotiate a Balanced Budget Amendment.

When it comes time to offer amendments to the proposed 2013 budget, I would hope my colleagues consider the families sitting down with their bills and calculator, carefully balancing their checkbook to make sure they can heat their house, buy groceries, put gas in the car and still set a little aside for emergencies.

Lawmakers would have to pass a balanced budget amendment in two sessions of the General Assembly before it could go to the voters.

In addition, both California and Illinois have balanced budget amendment language in their constitutions, however both states are swimming in billions of dollars of red ink.

Leon - Tailored Audio: Statehouse Democratic Reaction to Pence Balanced Budget Amendment Proposal

In his third State of the State address, Indiana Governor Mike Pence is calling for a balanced budget amendment to the State Constitution.

Its policy goals include cuts to income tax rates, a repeal of the estate tax, limited government and a Balanced Budget Amendment, entitlement reform, free trade, tort reform, school choice and deregulation.

Before the Republicans passed their Contract with America, the Reform Party already proposed a balanced budget amendment.

Several were on such fiscal matters as the 1996 budget resolution and a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget.

Every state except Vermont has a balanced budget amendment, yet states have wracked up large unfunded liabilities for their pension and retiree health plans.

Every state except Vermont has a balanced budget amendment requiring state legislators to spend no more money than they bring in as revenue.

about NSBA and other National Organizations oppose Balanced Budget Amendment in Letter to Congress

«Can Federal Education Survive a Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment?

LANSING, MI — The Michigan House today approved the Department of Education budget with an amendment which does not allow them to implement Common Core State Standards or «Smarter Balanced Assessments».

Most significantly, these documents reveal a new legal analysis that casts serious doubt on some proponents» claims that they are within striking distance of calling a convention to propose a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

ALEC's corresponding model bill is called «Compact for America: Balanced Budget Amendment.»

Right - wing convention backers mounted a strong push in this year's legislative season, but came up empty - handed in several of their target states and lost momentum when three states (Maryland, New Mexico, and Nevada) voted to rescind their balanced budget amendment convention calls.

The only real solution is for the states to exercise their power under Article V of the constitution to propose constitutional amendments that will mandate a balanced budget and in other ways rein in the federal government.

The House will vote next week on a balanced - budget amendment authored by Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte, GOP aides said Thursday.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R - Va., says a balanced - budget amendment has been one of his «highest priorities» during his time in Congress.