Sentences with phrase «republican on the appropriations»

Rep. Melissa Ziobron, the ranking Republican on the appropriations committee, said she was proud of the budget agreement, which contains many ideas the GOP has long pushed such as a cap on spending and bonding long - term capital projects.

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Another Tea Party freshman, Graves sits on the powerful House Committee on Appropriations, and is another member of the Republican Study Committee and the Tea Party Caucus.

During his 10 years in the House, he served on the powerful Appropriations Committee, and as a member of the Liberty Caucus and the Republican Study Committee.

As seven former IRS commissioners from both Republican and Democratic administrations have written: «Over the last fifty years, none of us has ever witnessed anything like what has happened to the IRS appropriations over the last five years and the impact these appropriations reductions are having on our tax system.»

«We will get it done,» said Rep. Andy Harris, a Baltimore County Republican who sits on the House Appropriations Committee and is a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee said the changes would «prevent overly burdensome and costly regulations and to provide greater flexibility for local school districts to improve the nutritional quality of meals.»

Rep. Mike Pence, House Republican Conference chair; and Rep. Tom Cole, who sits on the influential Appropriations Committee; are headlining the June 16 event for Hoffman at the Capital Hill Club in Washington.

Doolittle is under investigation for his work with convicted lobbyist Republican Jack Abramoff * May 11, 2007 - The Republican Conference names Ken Calvert - under investigation for a shady land deal — to replace Doolittle on Appropriations.

And this Heritage Action blog post has a long list of policy riders that Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee have proposed over the past year that Heritage suggests ought to be included in the upcoming bill.

«We believe it would be inappropriate to insist on the inclusion of such funding in a must - pass appropriations bill,» Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D - N.Y.) and four Democratic colleagues wrote of the wall in a recent letter to the Senate's Republican leadership.

Sen. Pat Gallivan, a Western New York Republican, said he'd like to see state funding for SolarCity's factory released next week by the Public Authorities Control Board, which postponed a vote on the appropriation amid legislative concerns.

Republicans adjourned the House at 3:15 a.m. until after July 4th after Speaker Paul Ryan took the remarkable step of calling a vote on a major appropriations bill in the wee hours and without any debate., but Democrats were still at it well after 4 a.m.

Senator Cathy Osten of Sprague, the Senate Democratic chair of the Appropriations Committee, is optimistic that a bipartisan agreement can be reached with her Republican counterparts in the budget - writing committee before the session ends on Wednesday.

Senate Appropriations Chairman Rob Bradley, a Fleming Island Republican, said the Senate has agreed with the House on how to use local property taxes to help fund the 67 school districts.

PRESS RELEASE FROM CONGRESSWOMAN NITA LOWEY — Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D - Westchester / Rockland), the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, on Tuesday outlined what she says would be the devastating impact of the House Republican budget.

In addition to lacking any official support from board Republicans, the proposal still has to make its way through the committees on Budget and Appropriations, Legislation, and Public Safety and Social Services.

The additions and deletions decided in those private caucus meetings were presented to the Republican legislators just prior to the actual votes on the changes in the Budget and Appropriations Committee (for the additions, only 20 minutes prior to the actual vote), and we were denied the necessary time to do our due diligence, conduct a proper review of the changes and suggest additional modifications.

The Republican legislators all voted to block this wasteful spending at the Budget and Appropriations Committee, as every Democratic legislator on the committee voted for it.

On the House side, Minority Leader Themis Klarides said Democrats blocked them from bringing the Republican budget to the floor for a vote in the Assembly's Appropriations Committee.

Senate Appropriations Chairman Rob Bradley, a Fleming Island Republican, said the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had «a real impact» on the budget process.

Texas Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a backer of cybersecurity reform, lamented to POLITICO last week that Snowden had slowed what was already sluggish progress on both cyber and defense appropriations bills.

The budget continues to rely heavily on appropriations from the federal government, at almost a third of state revenue, despite the unpredictability of state aid from Washington, D.C. under President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.

Representative John Culberson (R - TX), who chairs the appropriations subcommittee that funds NSF, and his Republican colleagues want to make sure the bulk of the money is spent on «core sciences,» which, in their view, do not include the geological or the social and behavioral sciences.

The proposal is authored by senators Lamar Alexander (R - TN), a senior Republican who serves on key committees that oversee DOE and its budget, and Christopher Coons (D - DE), who serves on the appropriations committee.

The other members of the waste quartet are senators Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) and Lamar Alexander (R - TN), who lead the Senate appropriations subpanel that oversees waste issues, and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R - AK), the senior Republican on the energy committee.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, which Feinstein chairs and Alexander serves as the top Republican, may again include a mandate for DOE to designate a high level waste / spent nuclear fuel storage site, as they did in the 2012 bill that the last Congress did not pass.

A House SS&T committee spokeswoman confirmed today that the House Republican Conference granted Palazzo a waiver from the rule that members of the Appropriations Committee may not serve on other committees and thus he retains his position on House SS&T.

Most members of the House and Senate left Washington last night for the July 4 holiday, but based on the video, six Republican House members stayed in town for the event today: Rep. John Culberson (R - TX), chairman of the Commerce - Justice - Science (CJS) subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, which funds NASA; Rep. Lamar Smith (R - TX), chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology (SS&T) Committee, which authorizes NASA activities and sets policy; Rep. Brian Babin (R - TX), chairman of the House SS&T Space Subcommittee; Rep. Steve Palazzo (R - MS), member of the House CJS subcommittee; and two other members of House SS&T — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA) and Rep. Bill Posey (R - FL).

Republicans and Democrats on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies lambasted the president's proposal to eliminate funding for long - standing programs such as Upward Bound and vocational education to make room for a high school improvement initiative and new mathematics and science programs.

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.

On a 5 - 2 party line vote, with two Republicans opposed, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to send AB 5, the bill rewriting the teacher evaluation law, to the full Senate for a vote next week.

Demonstrating once again that their service to corporate interests and their fear of primary election challenges from right - wing candidates trumps their interest in governance, the Republican majority on a House Appropriations subcommittee is set to mark up a fiscal year... Continue reading →