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New York lawmakers had not seen a White House funding proposal as of Wednesday afternoon, their aides said.
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Congressional aides said that the White House had suggested a three - year extension of the DACA program in exchange for $ 25 billion in funding for the border wall, a proposal Democrats rejected.
On July 13, the House defeated a proposal that would have prevented the Pentagon from funding gender - confirmation surgery and hormone therapy for service members.
Proposals to raise the Bay Bridge toll by $ 3, fast - track electronic stun guns for police officers and increase taxes on commercial landlords to fund affordable housing or child care.
«The reality is these proposals prop up Obamacare instead of repealing it,» said Alexei Woltornist, spokesman for the Republican Study Committee, a large bloc of House conservatives that says the plan amounts to a taxpayer - funded giveaway to private health insurers.
Their proposal to place funding from the foreign buyer's tax into a housing affordability fund is very much aligned with the recommendations in our platform, however the retroactive nature of such a tax could cause significant market disruptions and penalize those who made reputable deals in the past.
Proposals in both the Senate and House would cut funding to SNAP and reduce funding available for poor residents to feed themselves, said Kate Maehr, executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which will release its report Friday.
Controversial federal legislation to limit funding for subsidized school lunches and change some of the program's nutritional standards passed a House committee on a 20 - 14 vote May 18, and the proposal is being hammered by critics who believe it would endanger the health of American school children.
Assembly Democrats on Monday evening released their one - house budget proposal, a $ 170 billion spending plan that would fund transportation in New York City through fees on ride hailing services and cabs in Manhattan and add more money for education than what was proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
As the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this coming Thursday on the Republican plan to replace Obamacare with the American Health Care Act, a proposal limiting New York state's funding formula for Medicaid is getting some bipartisan support.
N.Y. — As the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this coming Thursday on the Republican plan to replace Obamacare with the American Health Care Act, a proposal limiting New York state's funding formula for Medicaid is getting some bipartisan support.
State agencies issued three separate Requests for Proposals to provide more than $ 650 million in capital funding and $ 30 million in service and operating funding for at least 1,200 supportive housing units for homeless people with special needs, conditions or other challenges.
New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ
As lawmakers prepare for the state budget waltz, the state Senate and Assembly on Wednesday began to preview their one - house budget proposals, which are set to include a 25 percent income tax cut for middle class New Yorkers, a SUNY tuition freeze and «parity» between upstate and downstate transportation funding.
Trump's proposal to cut $ 6.2 billion in federal housing funds would decimate programs that help millions of low - income Americans keep a roof over their heads.
Mr Dromey also called on the government to implement Labour's housing policy proposals, which include a bank bonus tax to fund 25,000 affordable homes in the hopes of jump starting the house building sector.
The minimum wage increase was just one of 10 proposals that the governor unveiled in advance of his State of the State address in Albany on Wednesday, including expansions in job programs for urban youth, additional funding for homeless services and low - income housing, and assistance for food programs.
The Assembly's one - house budget includes a $ 200 million reserve fund to help health care providers afford an increase in the statewide hourly minimum wage to $ 15, while the Senate's version doesn't address the wage issue at all, but does have a Paid Family Leave proposal.
Republicans also said their one - house budget proposal will include «parity» between funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the state Department of Transportation.
At 1:30 p.m., Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler join 9/11 first responders and survivors to criticize recent proposals from the Majority House Judiciary and Energy and Commerce committees that would provide a temporary and underfunded extension of the World Trade Center Health Program and Victim Compensation Fund, Silverstein Family Park, in front of 7 World Trade Center, Manhattan.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's affordable housing proposal — a key component of her mayoral pitch — is being supported by a nonprofit housing advocate group that Quinn granted funds to for three consecutive years, the Wall Street Journal reported.
De Blasio stumped for his second - term proposals, including a millionaires tax to fund the MTA and a mansion tax to fund senior housing.
He also touted the mansion tax to fund affordable housing for seniors, as well as his 3K for All proposal, which would provide free, quality education for three - year - olds.
Campaign 4 NY / NY Housing sends 30 day amendment letter to NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to revise the budget and fully fund the State share of our NY / NY IV proposal.
New York's governor is blasting a proposal from the White House that he says would devastate funding for food assistance.
The House GOP proposal would add $ 20 million to current state school funding levels for cities and towns and set up a $ 90 million «hold harmless grant to ensure no municipality loses [educational cost sharing] aid compared to the current fiscal year,» according to the plan's summary.
Susan Stamler, executive director for United Neighborhood Houses, an organization which operates several settlement houses that provide a range of services including senior and child care, said the governor's proposal will take away the city's funding flexibility.
House members have sent a letter to House Speaker Richard Corcoran — who has mostly been mum since the shooting — asking him to match the Senate's funding proposal for mental health services.
That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.
On Monday at 1:30 p.m. at 7 World Trade Center, «Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney (NY - 12), Jerrold Nadler (NY - 10), Frank Pallone (NJ - 6) Nydia Velázquez (NY - 7) and Steve Israel (NY - 3) and others will join 9/11 first responders and survivors to state their strong opposition to recent proposals from the Majority House Judiciary and Energy and Commerce committees that would provide an underfunded and temporary extension of the World Trade Center Health Program and Victim Compensation Fund.»
Albanese supports a proposed congestion pricing initiative, known as Move New York, to impose tolls on the three East River bridges to help fund the subways; while de Blasio called congestion pricing a «regressive tax» and stressed that his proposal for a millionaire's tax to fund subway repairs was a more viable alternative, even though his proposal has largely been shot down by the GOP - controlled state Senate and de Blasio sees it passing only once Democrats take control of that house of the Legislature in January 2019, which de Blasio said was soon.
But the administration dismissed a proposal introduced by the State Senate as part of its one - house budget as too reliant on state funding and, therefore, unworkable.
«However, the coalition agreement that the Liberal Democrats should abstain on any proposals tabled in the House of Commons following Lord Browne's review of fees which they dislike, would deliver a Conservative majority for tuition fee and university funding reform.»
Klein presented policy proposals to preserve the nation's largest housing stock and increase the funding and construction of new affordable housing units for middle - income and low - income New Yorkers.
Nevertheless, Tisch said she expects passage of Governor Andrew Cuomo's bond proposal, which would fund not only technology upgrades but also capital improvements for pre-kindergarten classrooms and overcrowded schools that use trailers to house some students.
Chief among those proposals were establishment of a Mayor's Office of HIV / AIDS Policy, funding of shelter beds for homeless youth to eliminate the current waiting list that averages 350 per night at such facilities, and capital spending for senior housing that would serve the needs of LGBT New Yorkers.
In lieu of Quinn's proposal, de Blasio said he would employ the city's own resources to create affordable housing, but did not specify how he would fund this initiative.
«In addition to these funds,» she said, «the mayor has committed tens of millions of dollars to other city agencies that will directly benefit older New Yorkers, such as to set aside 15,000 affordable housing units targeted to households where older people reside, and a recently announced proposal which will require city and state legislative approval to raise the Senior Citizen Homeowner's Exemption household income eligibility from $ 37,400 to $ 58,400, which would benefit an estimated 32,000 households in New York City.»
But Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, who testified against the proposal, doubted that the fund will ever translate into brick - and - mortar affordable housing.
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The Senate Committee also sidelined the Administration's proposal to terminate federal funding for the National Estuarine Research Reserves System, as did the House.
The Senate panel's action also runs counter to the House Appropriations Committee, which decided to stick with the White House proposal to eliminate funding for the ARPA - E, a program designed to promote «revolutionary advances in fundamental and applied sciences» and further the nation's standing as a global leader in innovation.
An assistant professor who wrote her first successful R01 when she was still a postdoc, Suter believes that «young investigators who are in the position to make that transition to independence with their first R01,» and who recently submitted a proposal that was «very well - crafted and very well - received by their study sections but still couldn't meet pay lines,» will get a second look as funding agencies focus on applications that are already in - house.
In response to a question about the White House budget proposal's potential impact on NIH's ambitions, Collins pointed to passage late last year of the 21st Century Cures Act, a $ 6.3 billion measure that authorizes a decade of funding for the «moonshot» program to cure cancer, the Precision Medicine Initiative, the BRAIN initiative and efforts to combat opioid addiction.
Pielke is a target of an investigation by «Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives... into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.»
Senator Roy Blunt (R — MO), chair of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that oversees NIH's budget, reiterated his opposition to a White House proposal to use mandatory funding for NIH's regular budget in 2017, calling it «risky.»
They also prompted Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, to launch an investigation last week into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.
In a letter to House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R - Texas), AAAS and over 70 other organizations urged lawmakers to protect the integrity of the scientific enterprise and to continue to allow NSF to evaluate and fund research proposals in all disciplines, based on...
Unlike the earlier House proposal, the bill does not contain language opposed by research groups that would have required NIH to support a specific number of new grants at a minimum funding level.
The bill also maintains funding for DHS's university - based research centers at $ 39.7 million, rejecting a White House proposal for an $ 8.7 million cut.