Sentences with phrase «senate budget panel»

Education Commissioner Pam Stewart told a Senate budget panel Thursday that funding would be «woefully short» next year if lawmakers do not use an increase in property tax collections to support schools.

Following similar actions in the Assembly, a key Senate budget panel rejected proposals by Gov. Jerry Brown late last week to eliminate numerous mandated activities for K - 12 schools and suspend federal funding for student data systems.

Nursing homes would get a nearly 4 percent increase in what they are paid to treat frail, elderly Floridians, while $ 318 million in Medicaid funding would be redistributed among the state's hospitals, under a proposed spending plan released Wednesday by a Senate budget panel.

Under Congressional budget rules, the House and Senate budget panels are required by April 15 to approve nonbinding budget resolutions...

Not exact matches

Names are frequently missing, and, like the full House, the Senate panel voted at the last minute not to reveal the total intelligence budget.

The delay in rebate checks getting came to light during a budget hearing held by a joint fiscal panel of the Assembly and Senate.

Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, as well as Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco, each have a vote on the panel that could scuttle the loan.

But the loan request was halved at the Public Authorities Control Board meeting last month by the panel's three members: Senate Finance Chairman John DeFrancisco, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget director Bob Megna and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Before the focus of US Attorney Preet Bharara's probe emerged this week, Moreland Commission members said they had considered the speaker's outside income a high priority up until the point that the panel was disbanded by Cuomo in a budget deal with Silver and the state Senate.

First, on Tuesday, «[a] Senate spending panel... approved a tiny budget increase next year for [NSF] and flat funding for NASA — and congratulated themselves for doing so given a cap on overall domestic discretionary spending across the government,» Jeffrey Mervis reported.

A Senate spending panel today approved a tiny budget increase next year for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and flat funding for NASA — and congratulated themselves for doing so given a cap on overall domestic discretionary spending across the government.

The R&D Budget team will update the dashboard as the House and Senate appropriations panels work through the appropriations system.

Because the Senate panel had less money to work with in its budget allocation than the corresponding House subcommittee, biomedical research advocates feared the number would be lower.

The Senate's budget, approved by a Senate panel on Wednesday and expected to be passed by the Senate's full appropriations committee today, would give NASA a raise of 5 %, including $ 4.5 billion for science.

The House bill puts the agency at $ 4.6 billion, which is 5 % above its 2009 budget, while the Senate panel grants a 7 % increase.

«Well, we're at the brink,» said Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD), who heads the spending panel that oversees NIH's budget, on the Senate floor after the vote.

Both the House of Representatives and a Senate spending panel have added back money for Mars exploration, although Congress is unlikely to settle on a final budget for the agency until next spring.

But biomedical lobbyists hope that he will use his clout as chair of both the Senate spending panel that controls NIH's budget and the authorizing committee that sets policy for the agency to make things happen when the lame - duck Congress returns after the fall election.

One reason for Moore's optimism is the return of what is known as «regular order,» meaning allowing spending panels in both the House and Senate to specify the budgets of every federal agency.

Mikulski, who chairs the Senate panel that oversees the space agency budget, ordered an independent review this summer.

Senator Tim Johnson (D - SD) asked about DUSEL during a hearing by a Senate spending panel on DOE's 2012 budget request.

Spending panels in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate included $ 165 million for it in NIH's budget for 2016, with a House report referring to the NCS Alternative.

Also this month, the Senate Budget Committee adopted a partisan fiscal 2018 budget plan that contains instructions to the ENR panel to find $ 1 billion in savings over the next decade to offset tax cuts (E&E Daily, OcBudget Committee adopted a partisan fiscal 2018 budget plan that contains instructions to the ENR panel to find $ 1 billion in savings over the next decade to offset tax cuts (E&E Daily, Ocbudget plan that contains instructions to the ENR panel to find $ 1 billion in savings over the next decade to offset tax cuts (E&E Daily, Oct. 6).

The size of a Republican majority would determine committee ratios and budgets; more seats in the Senate translate into a greater advantage on the panels.

Speaking on this panel are Cascade Policy Institute President Steve Buckstein, State Budget Solutions President Bob Williams, and Arizona State Senate Majority Leader Andy Biggs.