Sentences with phrase «it budget controlled»

It essentially obliterates bipartisan spending caps established in the Budget Control Act of 2011 that had kept recent deficits partially in check.
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.
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.
A recent IDC survey pointed out that 62 percent of tech insiders believe the portion of the IT budget controlled by end users, instead of the tech department, is growing.
[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.
Mr. Chabot is fluent in French and English and has a wealth of experience in developing advanced - stage projects, including permitting, environmental management, project evaluation, operation start - up, reserve evaluation, mine planning, health and safety, and budget control.
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.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) is one contributor to declining military capability.
He dreams of a day when the Council operates like a «real legislature» with actual budgeting control.
[30] He voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and supported the Budget Control Act of 2011.
Cuomo also boasts that the portion of the budget he controls does not exceed the state's 2 percent tax cap.
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.
The budget controls state spending, and any mid-year changes should occur with their input — not the notice that they are currently due under the proposed language, they say.
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.
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.
Brooks added through a combination of strict cost controls and continued streamlining of county services, the portion of the budget controlled at the local level, is virtually flat.
«This is simply the Army telling you, «This is what we are going to do to meet the Budget Control Act.»
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.
On Wednesday, the Democrat - led Assembly aligned itself with Cuomo, a second - term Democrat, on measures like voting and campaign finance reform, while separating on other items related to transparency and budget control.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
««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.»
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.
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.
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.
The effort to exempt NIH from the Budget Control Act assumes that the law will remain in place.
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.
And we're trying to explain to the [Parliament's] budget control committee that this is what we need.
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.
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).
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.
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 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.
Original producer of the films, Joel Silver, will also not be involved due to his reputation for «budget control issues», which we've seen can destroy good movies because there is one too many cooks in the film kitchen.
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.
There are more than one - dozen factors that go into your success at the Show, including your pre-Show marketing, budget control, booth staff, follow - up system, products and more.
Meanwhile, the Budget Control Act (BCA) became law in August 2011.
When the Budget Control Act of 2011 passed, the federal budget began decreasing during the subsequent years.
However, the Budget Control Act of 2011 eliminated subsidized Stafford Loans for graduate students.
Andrew brings to the table extensive corporate experience in strategic management, organizational development, corporate re-structuring, financial planning, budgeting controls, sales and marketing — together with the training and development of senior company executives.
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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.
has the tools to provide budgeting control and certainty through fixed fees, blended rates and segmented budgets.
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