By a 29 - to - 52 vote, the senators failed to table the measure, which was offered on Oct. 20 as an amendment to the fiscal 1984 Justice
Department appropriation bill by Senator Jesse A. Helms, Republican of North Carolina.
Senators voted to retain a provision, attached to a Justice
Department appropriation bill, that would prohibit the use of federal funds to «obstruct the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer.»
Speaking to reporters in Times Square, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said that as early as Wednesday, Democrats would move to add legislation to ban people suspected of terrorist inclinations from accessing firearms as an amendment to a Justice
Department appropriations bill.
Not exact matches
The House
appropriations bill would give $ 31.4 billion to federal environmental programs at the EPA,
Department of the Interior and other agencies.
The Senate has stated that ministers and heads of government agencies and
departments are delaying passage of 2018
appropriation bill, threatening to take a major legislative...
We need to continue to focus on cutting our debt and defecit in common sense ways, and hopefully, next year, the goal is to go through the regular
appropriations process
department by
department, committee by committee, instead of one end of the year spending
bill.»
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 section of the public believes that the National Assembly as an institution lost its respect and this is the reason why Federal Government's ministries,
departments and agencies are not committed to the ongoing work on the 2018
Appropriation Bill.
Both chambers of the National Assembly hinged the delay in passing budget on the failure of heads of ministries,
departments and agencies to defend the
appropriations bill.
An
appropriations bill is a
bill that appropriates (gives to, sets aside for) money to specific federal government
departments, agencies, and programs.
The Senate has told Nigerians to blame members of President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet and the ministries,
departments and agencies under their portfolios for the delay in the passage of the 2018
Appropriation Bill by the National Assembly.
Bill: Military Construction / Veterans Affairs («Milcon») Key Agency:
Department of Veterans Affairs
Bill Text Report Language Markup Video See also: VA Research in the AAAS
Appropriations Dashboard
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The Senate
Appropriations Committee's Fiscal 2018 Energy & Water Development
bill, which was approved on July 20, would provide $ 5.55 billion for fiscal 2018 for the Energy
Department's Office of Science, which funds the nation's 10 national laboratories.
In December, however, the 109th Congress left town for the last time, having passed two
appropriations bills — for the
Departments of Defense and Homeland Security — but not the 9 other
bills needed to fund the rest of the government for the 2007.
In October, Congress approved a conference report attached to the U.S.
Department of Interior's
appropriations bill that cited expanded leasing in the Arctic Ocean, including seismic testing and exploratory drilling, and called for independent scientific analysis before the agency proceeds.
On Capitol Hill, a report accompanying the Labor /
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
appropriations bill recommends that when a journal accepts a paper generated with NIH support, a copy be sent to PubMed Central, the NIH National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) archive of full - text articles.
The House is expected to complete work on the 2013
appropriations bill (H.R. 5326) for the
departments of commerce and justice, science, and related agencies later this week.
Congress ruled out all human embryo research funded by the entire
Department of Health and Human Services, NIH's parent agency, in language in the 1996 and 1997
appropriations bills.
The latest AAAS analysis of the FY 2016 R&D
appropriations bills in place shows how some federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health, have been relatively embraced by appropriators this year, while others, such as the Environmental Protection Agency or the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, have not.
Science Insider has been reporting on pieces of the so - called «minibus» — an
appropriations bill that consolidates $ 182 billion in spending by five
departments (Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development) and a number of independent agencies, including the National Science Foundation.
[Box 26] AAAS and Congress, lobbying, 1959 - 1987 Congress, 1986 Arctic, 1981 Legislative Branch, 1981 - 1984 Executive Branch, pre-1985 OMB Circular, 1983 Science Policy: A Working Glossary, 1978 Science Policy Task Force Congressional Research Service, 1986 Environmental Protection Agency House Committee on Science and Technology, 1986 Office of Management and Budget Office of Science and Technology Policy, 1982 Office of Technology Assessment, 1980 Senate State
Department (2 Folders) AAAS Science, Engineering, and Diplomacy Fellows, Lunch and Orientation, 1983 Tax
Bills, 1981 Edwards vs Aguilard, Louisiana Creationist Suit, 1986 Edwards vs Aguilard, NAS amicus brief Edwards vs Aguilard, People for the American Way amicus brief Edwards vs Aguilard, Supreme Court arguments Hutchinson vs. Proxmire, amicus brief, 1978 Southeastern College vs. Frances Davis, amicus brief, 1979 State
Department, 1976 - 1984 Human Subjects Research, 1979 Controversy over Inhaber Article in Science, 1979 Three Mile Island, 1979 Federal
appropriations, universities and pork barrel projects
The legislation contains full funding for fiscal year 2015 for 11 of the 12 regular annual
Appropriations bills, with the exception of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Bill: Defense Key Agency:
Department of Defense
Bill Text Markup Video Tables: Total R&D R&D by Military Branch Basic Research Science & Tech See also: DOD in the AAAS
Appropriations Dashboard
Bill: Agriculture Key Agency: U.S.
Department of Agriculture
Bill Text Markup Video See also: USDA in the AAAS
Appropriations Dashboard
Yesterday the House
Appropriations Subcommittee approved its FY 2018 Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) spending
bill, which covers NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the
Department of Commerce, on a voice vote.
The budget agreement sets limits on how much can be spent, but only
appropriations bills actually provide money for
departments and agencies to spend.
«We look forward to working closely with Congress as the Defense
Appropriations bill works its way toward enactment and with the
Department of Defense as it develops its fiscal year 2017 research agenda,» said Slay.
Washington — The House
Appropriations Committee was scheduled to vote this week on a $ 59.3 - billion social - services spending
bill that includes a $ 2.47 - billion increase in discretionary spending for Education
Department programs in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
Also last week, the Congress cleared and President Bush signed a final version of HR 3566, an
appropriations bill that provides the Education
Department with $ 24.15 billion for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
S 1061, the fiscal 1998
appropriations bill for the
departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, passed on a 92 - 8 vote that did not reflect partisan discord over the amendment.
Washington — The Congress was widely expected late last week to complete action on a $ 15.22 - billion fiscal 1984
appropriations bill for the U.S. Education
Department.
A fiscal 1992
appropriations bill that is nearing final passage includes a new accounting gimmick that obscures the amount actually allocated for the Education
Department — and for which competing explanations have been offered.
WASHINGTON — In addition to the conference sessions planned on the Education
Department's
appropriation for the next fiscal year, House - Senate negotiations are set to begin on two other education - related spending
bills for 1989.
Washington — Not willing to risk a Presidential veto of a huge catchall spending
bill and seeking to make good on a political vow to pass their own
appropriations bill for the second straight year, key congressional leaders pushed through a weary 98th Congress, a record $ 17.6 billion in fiscal 1985 Education
Department funding last week — not as part of the continuing resolution but in the $ 101 - billion
bill for the
departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.
The Education
Department was guaranteed $ 15.22 billion in fiscal 1984 under an
appropriations bill signed into law by President Reagan on Oct. 31.
The omnibus legislation encompassed five remaining spending
bills President Clinton had not signed into law, including the
appropriations bill for the
departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.
Buried on page 166 of the
Appropriations Committee report accompanying the $ 105 - billion spending
bill for the
departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education was a statement of support for the flexibility that Mr. Bennett seeks in the bilingual - education program — which now mandates use of the transitional method, in which non-English-speaking students receive some instruction in their native language.
In the
Department's fiscal year (FY) 2006
appropriations bill, Congress also included language overriding the statutory provision that SEAs use 50 percent of the amount available for grants to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) for formula awards and 50 percent for competitive awards.
The Institute of Education Sciences, the U.S.
Department of Education's research arm, faces a $ 10 million cut in the Senate
bill and a whopping $ 164 million cut in the House
appropriations measure, from its current fiscal year budget of $ 573.9 million.
This
bill makes a supplemental
appropriation from the Education Trust Fund to the
Department of Veterans» Affairs in the amount of $ 4,294,859 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018; and makes a supplemental
appropriation from the Education Trust Fund to the State
Department of Education for the Alabama School of Cyber and Engineering in the amount of $ 500,000 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018.
The 2014 Commerce, Justice and Sciences (CJS)
appropriations bill includes an historic amendment to prohibit the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from spending funds «in contravention of Section 7606» of the 2014 Farm B
bill includes an historic amendment to prohibit the
Department of Justice (DOJ) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from spending funds «in contravention of Section 7606» of the 2014 Farm
BillBill.
Abortion Amendment to
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Appropriations Bill Puts Politics Before National Security
The full Senate is slated to take up the ban issue this fall as part of the fiscal year 2007
appropriations bill for the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Thus, to hit the $ 538 billion target for the 13
appropriations bills that will fund all the government
departments for fiscal year 2000, which begins Oct. 1, 1999, Congress must set a spending plan that's $ 24 billion less than the $ 562 billion it budgeted for this year's spending.