Sentences with phrase «about budget requests»

The nice thing about budget requests is that you can ask for whatever you want, regardless of the likelihood of its ever getting funded.

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Based on Trump's 2017 budget request for $ 2.6 billion to plan, design and build 75 miles of wall, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill's office estimated the per - mile cost would be about $ 37 million, or nearly $ 67 billion for the entire 2,000 - mile border.

Fedosejevs was part of a group of fusion researchers who requested $ 21 million from the Alberta government in 2009 to establish an Alberta - Canada Fusion Energy Institute, but their timing was poor, given that the province was about to announce its first budget deficit in 15 years.

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We have looked into your request for information about Budget for Elective Home Education, and our response is shown below.

And the governor offered no details on the request when asked about it Tuesday, a week before a final state budget it due.

When Galante started talking about possible looming budget cuts, Comrie cut him off asking «Do you have a budget request?»

A day or so before the state budget was passed last week, Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, a Kenmore Democrat, stopped by the Capitol's press room to share with a reporter details about three recipients of his successful pork barrel requests that he said will support entrepreneurship to global trade efforts.

Gallo's first budget as mayor also took a hard line on departmental spending — he rejected about $ 2 million in purchases, including new police, fire and public works vehicles, requested by department heads.

Even more galling, the Administration's recent budget request would cut funding to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, by another $ 400 million dollars — that means about a $ 40 million cut for New York.

Last year, during the city's 2013 budget process, Mayor Shayne Gallo and the Common Council opted to cut about $ 1.2 million in bond requests from the fire department to buy a new pumper and ladder truck.

Because districts are allowed to go above that number for certain capital expenses, the average increase requested for school budgets this year is about 1.5 percent, according to the School Boards Association.

It is worth noting that this reckless commitment above the budgeted amount was questioned by the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) in December 2016 when COCOBOD needed to seek approval to award additional contracts and the Authority inquired about the availability of budgetary provision to enable it to approve the requested contract awards.

«The consensus is the governor's office did not hold up its end of the agreement when we accepted their request to stand down in return for the release of fiscal information about the planned DOT regional capital program for Long Island after Cuomo's budget release.

Because schools are allowed to go above that number for certain capital expenses, the average increase requested for school budgets this year is about 1.5 percent, according to the School Boards Association.

HRSA denied a request from Science to interview the current head of the national program, but issued a statement in response to questions about the impact budget cuts might have on research.

This matches Obama's 2013 budget request to Congress in February (see Nature 482, 283 — 285; 2012), but contrasts with the Senate version of the spending bill, which boosts the agency's funding by about $ 100 million.

Playing catch - up without a plan The White House budget request for 2011 included enough money to support roughly 1,600 JPSS staffers, but the agency could only afford to pay about 800 staffers last year because Congress slashed funding for the program.

However, it is quite common for funding bodies to put a cap on the amount that can be requested, and in this case, you need to start thinking about the budget right at the beginning of the application process.

► On Wednesday at ScienceInsider, Eric Hand wrote about a spending proposal from the House of Representatives spending bill proposal that would spare several NASA programs that the White House budget request would scrap.

Reflecting broad concerns about tainted peanuts, adulterated drugs, and the need for stronger enforcement of standards, the Obama Administration has requested a 19 % budget boost for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to $ 3.2 billion.

Today, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) issued a report claiming that the number of competing grants — essentially new awards — will plunge about 40 %, from 16,564 to 9850, if NIH's base budget stays at the $ 31 billion requested by President Barack Obama for 2010.

The Aurora speculation has been fueled, in part, by the Defense Department's classified budget requests, estimated by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, D.C., to total $ 30.1 billion for 2007, with about half going to classified R&D.

Overall, that collective research budget request is essentially unchanged from what the agencies were given for FY 2010, though it is up about 5 % from the Administration's request last year of $ 1.7 billion.

[Jennifer Couzin - Frankel adds this about CDC: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered a slight drop; in its 2009 budget CDC received $ 6.36 billion, and Obama is now requesting $ 6.34 billion.

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

* Update, 8 February, 3:26 p.m.: At a White House press conference today to discuss the budget request, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, noted that NIH currently spends about $ 100 million per year on research into dengue, yellow fever, and other closely related viruses to Zika, which are all flaviviruses.

«We want to think about the role of Monju» within a broader energy policy, education minister Masaharu Nakagawa said at a press briefing today unveiling the budget request for fiscal 2012, which starts in April.

Fusion research cuts — Representative Don Beyer (D — VA), a new member of the House, asked about the reasoning behind a requested cut in DOE's fusion program budget, which would decrease by 10 % under the request — the only loser in the Office of Science.

President Barack Obama requested about $ 17.7 billion for NASA during his 2013 budget proposal, $ 59 million less than what the space agency received in 2012.

Both the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearings raised questions about other priorities in the NASA budget request — especially funding for robotic Mars exploration — but the focus was firmly on commercial crew versus the Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorization act.

Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren testified to the committee yesterday about the FY2014 budget request for federal research and development (R&D).

About two weeks ago, I received a few snaps requesting some budget friendly holiday decor for your homes!

In my English budget each year I request an amount that will cover the cost of giving each published student a copy of the book, which is about $ 8 to $ 10.00 per book, including shipping.

One of the ballot issues defeated was a request by school officials for authority to issue $ 160 million in bonds to cover the district's current - year deficit, which represents about 23 percent of its annual budget.

Democrats, in particular, also complained about the department's budget request for fiscal 2003, arguing...

Rep. Todd Rokita of Indiana, the top Republican on the subcommittee overseeing K - 12 policy, also asked about language in the administration's budget request that would provide $ 389 million in assessment grants to states that have adopted college - and career - ready standards.

«Act 10» provision pushback With legislators during agency briefings asking questions about an item in the governor's budget proposal to require districts to prove they are «following Act 10 provisions» in order to receive funding for students, the Wisconsin Association of School Boards has requested the Joint Finance Committee remove that from the budget.

«I remain highly concerned about several of the president's other education proposals in the budget request, including freezes in funding for Title I and [the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act],» he said in an emailed statement.

If you would like to make a request for assistance, please include information about your specific scope of work and an estimated budget so that we can respond to meet your needs.

Select booth staff who can handle questions or requests and who are able to assess each buyer and find out about the buyer's needs and budget to determine whether there is potential for business.

While mostly fielding questions about K - 12, DeVos did state that the budget request would help those students who need the most assistance.

According to the Obama Administration's latest 2014 budget request, the government expects to spend about $ 4 billion on federal - and state - run exchanges for individuals and small businesses.

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Seems to me in hindsight that some prominent properties of current sceptics include — worked many years evaluating technical reports, commonly to approve or reject budget requests from others — many from industry or military rather than academia — careers that promote you for delivering the goods, like making profit — worked in positions requiring accountability — often with a degree in humanities as well as science / engineering, allowing interest in social conduct — education more often degrees short of PhD — old enough to have gained some wisdom — realistic about the horror of climategate and its whitewashes — appreciative of the rigour and good spirit of Climate Audit

«This nonpartisan GAO report Senator Cantwell and I requested contains astonishing numbers about the consequences of climate change for our economy and for the federal budget in particular,» said Collins.

Vespry added that in terms of the process requesting the funding, the matter should have come about during budget discussions.

I think so often metrics in the law firm library circle around things like number of reference requests, docketed / billed hours spent, and budget targets; it is good to learn about alternatives that provide more value for measuring performance.

There have been reports that the National Security Council and Department of Homeland Security are taking a more active role in making sure there is a strong movement in favor of disclosure, he told TechNewsWorld, «but we'd like to see more transparency, such as public reporting about how the process works,» which is requested in the litigation, «as well as some way of understanding the volume, number of vulnerabilities the government handles, and even the budget devoted to it.»

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