Sentences with phrase «house budget request»

NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot has put out a statement reacting to the White House budget request, which calls for a 1 % cut overall to his agency, and a 5 % cut to NASA's earth science programs.

The cuts were proposed in the White House budget request.

The White House budget request for the National Science Foundation would fund two new research vessels, but some members of Congress want three.

► On Wednesday at ScienceInsider, Eric Hand wrote about a spending proposal from the House of Representatives spending bill proposal that would spare several NASA programs that the White House budget request would scrap.

Playing catch - up without a plan The White House budget request for 2011 included enough money to support roughly 1,600 JPSS staffers, but the agency could only afford to pay about 800 staffers last year because Congress slashed funding for the program.

In another ScienceInsider posted last Friday, Erik Stokstad reported that «the White House budget request included $ 75 million for three new research institutes.»

Science and technology programs across these bills — which cover the Departments of Energy, Defense, and Veterans Affairs — fare far better than they would have under the White House budget request, but many programs are still lined up for some reduction, even after several floor amendments added some science and technology funding to different corners of the bill.

Not exact matches

The White House is set to request for $ 11 billion to be cut from the federal budget Monday, according to two sources briefed on the proposal.

The House version is more expansive and would provide $ 8 billion for school nutrition programs, a figure more in line with the president's request for an unprecedented $ 10 billion in the FY2011 budget to overhaul the Child Nutrition Act.

The Trump White House has made it official: The president will sign the $ 1.1 trillion catchall spending bill, though he's «concerned» lawmakers ignored his request that increases be accompanied by spending cuts elsewhere in the budget.

The Legislature passed another budget extender that included — at the request of both houses — the $ 25 million loan to NYRA.

He humbly requested that the state actually give the Housing Authority the $ 100 million it was promised in last year's budget, of which, he said, the city has not yet seen a single cent.

At 3 p.m., Rep. Adriano Espaillat and members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a press conference to discuss the Administration's requested cuts to the international affairs budget, Room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

The sheriff's office last November requested a one - time $ 521,000 payment for the program, but on Wednesday when criminal justice budget talks started both the House and the Senate agreed on giving the department $ 200,000.

For the local government officials in the house, one thing they want on the record, is a request for support in fighting state mandates that they say drive up spending for their budgets.

Maffei, D - Syracuse, joined 46 Democratic and Republican members of the House in signing a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi requesting a floor vote on the No Budget, No Pay Act.

Additionally, some charts below rely on data collected by the National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, and from the historical tables provided by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), via the President's budget reBudget (OMB), via the President's budget rebudget request.

... Meanwhile, Biden plans to propose continuing the moonshot's financial momentum in the White House's FY 2017 budget request, due out 9 February.

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A spokesman for Rep. Kay Granger (R - Texas), who leads the House Appropriations subcommittee over foreign aid that recommended an 18 percent cut to USAID's budget, did not return a request for comment yesterday.

«The bill rejects the budget request's proposal to reduce investment in the energy we use today,» Representative Mike Simpson (R — ID), chair of the House energy and water subcommittee, said at the subcommittee's markup.

NSF's budget request may not become clear until the White House fleshes out the details of its spending plan over the next 2 months.

And the White House requested that the budget to support commercial space flight be more than doubled.

The budget cycle begins with the president's annual budget proposal outlining White House spending requests for each federal agency and program.

Researchers dependent on government funding would face a flat future under the White House's $ 3.9 trillion budget request for the 2015 fiscal year, which begins 1 October.

The original 2019 budget request was completed long before that deal with struck, however, forcing the White House to adhere to the existing spending caps.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on 3 Feb. that the White House will request a doubling of funding for competitive grants under the department's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) in the president's FY 2017 budget, to be released next week.

► Then, throughout the day, ScienceInsider provided extensive coverage of the budget request as details became available, starting at 7:45 a.m. with the top - line R&D number and continuing until 8 p.m. with reactions from Lamar Smith (R - TX, not happy) and Bernice Johnson (D - TX, happy), the top Republican and Democrat on the House science committee.

How It Works: In the typical budget process, the White House requests funding levels for each agency and program first, in the early spring.

In general, House appropriators have tended to propose a DOE research budget higher than the White House request, and the Senate version has come in lower.

The Earth science division funding nearly matches the president's budget request — a sign that the anti-climate science rumblings from House Republicans dissipated in the final reckoning.

The new budget contains $ 438 million for the program, a cut of 6.4 % from last year, but 4 % more than the White House requested.

Several of the key requests in the White House's budget were rejected, however.

NASA formally began a mission earlier this year in the president's 2016 budget request, after years of reluctance from the White House's Office of Management and Bbudget request, after years of reluctance from the White House's Office of Management and BudgetBudget.

Usually such budgets are purely aspirational, and aren't included in the White House's formal budget request to Congress (hence the name; they «bypass» White House budget officials).

That's the first official answer from lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives to President Donald Trump's request to make deep budget cuts at several key science funding agencies.

The United States Senate appropriations committee is set to approve a NASA budget for 2010 that mirrors President Barack Obama's $ 18.7 billion request for the agency, setting up a fight with the House of Representatives, which slashed $ 212 million from the funds sought by NASA for its human exploration program.

BES funds research in condensed matter physics, materials science, chemistry, and related fields and runs DOE's x-ray sources and most of its other «user facilities,» and the White House has requested a 6.6 % increase in the BES budget to $ 1.8 billion.

That hearing, for example, ended with a request from its chair, Representative Frank Wolf (R — VA), for additional materials that will help him argue for a larger NSF budget when the spending bill goes to the House floor.

In June, the chair of the House appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee, Representative Denny Rehberg (R - MT), said that his subcommittee could not act on the changes until it received an official budget request directly from the White House.

In a mark - up of the budget for 2011, a spending panel in the House of Representatives has trimmed the budget for DOE's Office of Science from a requested $ 5.121 billion to $ 4.900 billion.

The 11 - member panel from the National Research Council of the National Academies, dominated by university astronomers and led by retired aerospace executive Norm Augustine, was set up in April at the request of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

► Tuesday was also budget day in the United States, and ScienceInsider combed through the pages of the White House's fiscal year 2017 budget request for all the news that's relevant to scientists.

The White House would like to boost NASA's Earth science activities by $ 1.2 billion over five years, according to a 2010 budget request announced on Thursday.

Although the President's budget requested a 5.5 % increase for EPA's discretionary budget, the House would instead significantly reduce it by 10 % below FY 2015 levels.

In their version of the DOE budget for 2015, House appropriators gave ITER $ 225 million, $ 75 million more than the White House request.

Still, the White House request helps set the terms of the annual budget debate, which likely won't be settled until late this year.

President Barack Obama this morning unveiled the Precision Medicine Initiative he'll include in his 2016 budget request to a White House East Room audience packed with federal science leaders, academic researchers, patient and research advocacy groups, congressional guests, and drug industry executives.

* Update, 8 February, 3:26 p.m.: At a White House press conference today to discuss the budget request, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, noted that NIH currently spends about $ 100 million per year on research into dengue, yellow fever, and other closely related viruses to Zika, which are all flaviviruses.

Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz went committee - hopping this week, defending President Barack Obama's 2016 budget request for the Department of Energy (DOE) before two panels in the U.S. House of Representatives.