Sentences with phrase «budget control act»

Under present law, in 2013 the 2001/2003 tax cuts expire, the payroll tax cut expires, extended unemployment benefits end, and federal government spending levels decline due to last summer's Budget Control Act.

The payroll tax cut and extended unemployment benefits will likely lapse, but we expect the net spending cuts from the Budget Control Act to stand, even if there is some shifting or postponement among certain programs.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America strongly denounces the House passage of Speaker Boehner's Budget Control Act of 2011.

Requiring automatic, across - the - board federal budget cuts of 10 %, the sequester was enacted during the bitter debt ceiling negotiations that resulted in passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011.

However, the Budget Control Act of 2011 eliminated subsidized Stafford Loans for graduate students.

When the Budget Control Act of 2011 passed, the federal budget began decreasing during the subsequent years.

Meanwhile, the Budget Control Act (BCA) became law in August 2011.

These cuts include the automatic, across - the - board cuts known as sequestration, as well as other cuts also resulting from the 2011 Budget Control Act.

The Senate is using the top level assumptions that are in law as part of the Budget Control Act (BCA) enacted last year after considerable debate over raising the debt limit.

Committee Republicans complained that the $ 18.1 billion authorized in the bill ignores budget caps imposed by the 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA), which created the sequester.

The bill makes funding recommendations based on two different budget scenarios — an «aspirational» level where the caps set by the 2011 Budget Control Act (BCA) are removed and a «constrained» level where the caps remain in force.

An important bottom line in all this is that the big - picture changes proposed to the discretionary budget will face a major uphill battle in Congress this year, for the fact that changing the spending caps requires changing the underlying law governing them (the Budget Control Act).

Federal R&D spending has remained essentially flat since 2005, and the 2011 Budget Control Act, a package of automatic spending cuts known as the «sequester,» only exacerbated that reality, she said.

The shift would likely require Congress to change a 2011 law, called the Budget Control Act, that imposes caps on domestic spending — but Democrats in the Senate have already said they would block any change unless it also includes spending increases for civilian programs.

The effort to exempt NIH from the Budget Control Act assumes that the law will remain in place.

Against that backdrop, a major topic of discussion on all sides will be how to deal with the spending caps mandated under the 2011 Budget Control Act.

Medicare spending is projected to grow 4.2 percent in 2013, down from 4.6 percent in 2012, because of the 2 percent reduction in Medicare provider payments mandated in the Budget Control Act of 2011, referred to as sequestration.

Here, Mervis focuses on the outlook for biomedical funding, considering a proposal to exempt National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding from spending caps mandated by the 2011 Budget Control Act.

««This bill will put a plan in place for the Appropriations Committee to reverse the 10 - year retrenchment in biomedical research funding over the remaining years of the Budget Control Act,» Harkin said in July when he introduced the legislation, called the Accelerating Biomedical Research Act.»

Indicators shows that Federal investment in both academic and business sector R&D has declined in recent years, reflecting the effects of the end of the investments of ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), the advent of the Budget Control Act, and increased pressure on the discretionary portion of the federal budget.

Such savings would amount to almost two - thirds of the $ 1.2 trillion in spending cuts Congress is required to make beginning in 2013 under the terms of last year's Budget Control Act.

When the Budget Control Act was signed into law in 2011, it first established an original spending cap baseline, along with a joint Congressional committee to come up with some kind of trillion - dollar grand bargain to further reduce deficits.

In fact, both defense and nondefense spending will now be lifted far above what the Budget Control Act ever allowed even before sequestration kicked in, underscoring the return of Congressional preferences for spending over fiscal discipline (see graph showing nondefense spending below, and click here to see defense spending).

The 2010 Republican takeover of the House was followed first by a round of cuts and then by the Budget Control Act, which locked in sequestration in FY 2013 and discretionary spending caps for a decade.

Even so, the increase for nondefense discretionary spending — a category that covers just about every research agency including NIH, NASA, and the National Science Foundation — is the largest since the original caps were first put in place in 2011 through the Budget Control Act.

That's because the omnibus sets defense spending at $ 621.5 billion, approximately $ 72 billion above the spending caps mandated by the Budget Control Act.

We need the Administration, we need the Senate, the House, to come to a workable number that we can agree to, to get rid of the sequestration and the Budget Control Act and come up with realistic numbers, both on the discretionary side and the non-discretionary side.

But the Army had not yet figured out how to cut an additional 30,000 active - duty force to 420,000 if Congress leaves in place its Budget Control Act rules that could trigger automatic, deeper budget cuts under the sequester process.

Ellis said the Department of Defense budget of about $ 523 billion (not including a separate overseas contingency account for Iraq and Afghanistan) is projected to grow by about $ 2 billion in fiscal 2016 and continue to grow modestly under the Budget Control Act until 2022.

«This is simply the Army telling you, «This is what we are going to do to meet the Budget Control Act.»

Congress can take a lot of the blame for because it has not said with certainty whether its budgets will continue to stay under the caps set by the Budget Control Act.

Others say the Pentagon is simply using the hearings to pressure Congress into rolling back the Budget Control Act of 2011, the law that set federal spending caps in order to achieve a $ 1.2 trillion deficit reduction over 10 years.

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 funding needs.

[30] He voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and supported the Budget Control Act of 2011.

The Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) is one contributor to declining military capability.

With the debt limit set to be hit in a matter of hours, Republicans and Democrats in Congress reluctantly accepted the president's demand for the sequester, and a revised version of the Budget Control Act was passed on a bipartisan basis.

[246] On August 2, 2011, after a lengthy congressional debate over whether to raise the nation's debt limit, Obama signed the bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2011.

The cliff is the default outcome of the Budget Control Act of 2011, a federal statute that helped bring the U.S. debt - ceiling crisis to an end.

Congress should enact new spending caps along the lines of the Budget Control Act, which helped to shrink outlays as a share of national income from 2013 to 2017.

It essentially obliterates bipartisan spending caps established in the Budget Control Act of 2011 that had kept recent deficits partially in check.

Not exact matches

He attempted to perform a balancing act between stimulating the economy and keeping control of the budget — the same two things Alberta's current NDP government finds itself trying to do.

«To that end, the Department of Justice has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a notice of a proposed regulation to clarify that the National Firearms and Gun Control Act defines «machine gun'to include bump stock type devices.»

The control number assigned to the information collection requirements in this part by the Office of Management and Budget pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, is OMB number 0581 — 0191.

To ensure irreversibility, we are implementing the following measures to tackle some of the long - term structural issues: a. capping of the statutory funds at 25 percent of government tax revenues b. operationalization of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to consolidate all government funds at the Bank of Ghana c. tightening of expenditure controls in GIFMIS to minimize inefficiencies and budget overruns d. strict enforcement of the PFM Act, as well as the Public Procurement Act, to ensure efficiency in public procurement, and e. adoption of the competitive tender process, which is eliminating wastage and giving Ghanaian taxpayers real value for their money.

Meanwhile, Republicans have increasingly chaffed at budgets that proposed tax hikes or minimum wage increases, issues that are anathema to their base already restive over the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package that Cuomo counts as a signature accomplishment.

Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Yonkers Democrat, said during a CapTon interview that Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been outspoken in his support of abortion rights, should pressure the Senate Republicans to codify Roe v. Wade in state law by including the tenth plank of his erstwhile Women's Equality Act — the only plank the GOP - controlled Senate has refused to pass — in this year's budget.

Mr. Klein defends his record, adding that he tried a last - minute maneuver to try to pass the women's act and was central to the passage of an increase in the minimum wage, three on - time budgets and the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun - control biact and was central to the passage of an increase in the minimum wage, three on - time budgets and the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun - control biAct, a 2013 gun - control bill.

Skelos touted how the Legislature adhered to the provisions of the Budget Reform Act of 2007, which was «ignored» when the Democrats controlled the chamber, adding: «Now we've seen that the chaos that existed for two years is gone, and government is functioning as it should, and — right now — with a bipartisan basis.»

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The state Democratic Party that Cuomo controls is funding a statewide TV, radio and digital ad campaign worth hundreds of thousands of dollars touting the governor's «middle - class recovery act» budget.