Sentences with phrase «spending at federal agencies»

Spending at federal agencies for the 2017 fiscal year, which began last October, is currently frozen at 2016 levels through the end of April under a so - called continuing resolution.

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Although less than 9 percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.

Southold spent $ 50,000 on screened sand to build up a dune at the edge of Town Beach during the recent rehabilitation project there, and although the Federal Emergency Management Agency will likely reimburse the town for it, Town Board members are worried that the sand might be too fine to keep from blowing away.

Short - Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations — Vote Passed (235 - 193, 5 Not Voting) The House passed the joint resolution that would provide funding for federal government operations and services at current levels through Dec. 22, 2017, at an annualized rate of $ 1.23 trillion for federal departments and agencies covered by the 12 unfinished fiscal 2018 spending bills.

Skelos also said he would direct the county on how to spend $ 17 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds for post-superstorm Sandy flood mitigation, according to the wiretapped conversation played Tuesday at the federal corruption trial of Skelos and his father, Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville CFederal Emergency Management Agency funds for post-superstorm Sandy flood mitigation, according to the wiretapped conversation played Tuesday at the federal corruption trial of Skelos and his father, Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Cfederal corruption trial of Skelos and his father, Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre).

Mauricio Horn, the visiting Secretariat of Scientific Technological Articulation adviser, spent a month at AAAS, learning about all aspects of AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program, attending its training sessions, meeting with federal officials who work with the fellows AAAS places in their agencies and attending events sponsored by former fellows who have organized special topic - specific groups.

«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets policy for NSF and two other federal research agencies, and the House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016 spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.

Trump's draconian budget request — which suggested drastic cuts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others — was rejected by Congress, and a spending bill that increases funding for science at many federal agencies was signed into law.

Research and development (R&D) spending is mostly concentrated in six major spending bills that encompass programs in nine federal departments and at least nine other agencies, and includes both discretionary accounts — spending that Congress adjusts and allocates annually — and mandatory accounts — direct spending that has dedicated funding streams established by law.

In 2000, Congress capped how much the agency can spend on construction and care at federal chimp sanctuaries at $ 30 million, a limit NIH will reach this summer.

The spending bill, expected to be attached to a continuing resolution for all federal agencies that must pass by Friday to avoid a government shutdown, funds NASA at $ 17.8 billion for FY 2012.

Finally, Nicholas Pinter, a Southern Illinois University scientist studying flooding disasters, says Obama should consider broader shifts in the budget and bureaucracy at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which still is mainly focused on responding once a disaster has struck — with only 15 percent of its spending in such instances devoted to steps that can cut known vulnerability the next time around.

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's foFederal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's fofederal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

You may know all that already, but what you may not know, is that to prepare a federal cover letter that includes all the finer details necessary for you to get the position, you have to spend time researching the agency you are applying to, and if at all possible, the person who will be reviewing the resumes.

She is currently a writer - editor at a federal agency in Washington, D.C. Prior to her federal job, Sarah spent six years as the editor of a weekly newspaper in Philadelphia.