Sentences with phrase «agencies request millions»

Each year, U.S. employers, organizations, and governmental agencies request millions of background checks, otherwise known as consumer reports, to assist with critical employment decisions.

Each year, U.S. employers, organizations and governmental agencies request millions of consumer reports to assist with critical business decisions.

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Congress did as the gun lobby requested, blocking the quarterly report proposal and reducing the ATF's budget by $ 5 million: the amount the agency had sought to update its computer capacity.

The request, expected to be swiftly approved by Congress, would add $ 7.4 billion to rapidly dwindling Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster aid coffers and $ 450 million to finance disaster loans for small businesses.

The agency received more than $ 630 million in grant requests from SFAs in response to ARRA funding, suggesting a substantial unmet need.

Britain's intelligence agencies could receive a rebuke from the snooping watchdog after it emerged there were over half a million requests for access to private data in 2012.

State agencies issued three separate Requests for Proposals to provide more than $ 650 million in capital funding and $ 30 million in service and operating funding for at least 1,200 supportive housing units for homeless people with special needs, conditions or other challenges.

The $ 1.7 million website and document processing tool allows visitors to request information and track requests from half a dozen federal agencies.

As part of the agency's preliminary budget requests, Ponte said the department will need $ 68 million to fix facades, windows, and other structural improvements alone, plus an additional $ 67 million for air handling units, duct work, heating, cooling and ventilation equipment.

In response to ESD's repeated delays and denials of Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests, Reclaim New York (Reclaim) filed a lawsuit today in State Supreme Court against New York State's lead economic development agency to obtain public records related to how the agency spent $ 246.5 million on advertising initiatives.

The request, which must be agreed to by the State Legislature, is $ 10 million less than what was spent in the 12 months ended March 31, 2017, according to a new report from Empire State Development, the agency that oversees the state's ad campaigns.

The administration had requested the Council's approval on $ 970 million in spending reallocations across city agencies.

In the Executive Budget in May, the City Administration increased capital funding to fully meet the MTA's request of $ 657 million the largest general capital contribution to the agency in recent history.

Of the $ 32 billion request, about $ 15 billion would go to New York City, $ 528 million to Westchester County, $ 144 million to Rockland County and another $ 7.2 billion for state agencies and transit authorities, officials said.

The agency, which has $ 60 million deficit, said fulfilling the request is getting «very expensive,» Olatoye said.

... [L] egislators added $ 53 million to the agency's large new facilities account to begin building three regional - class research vessels rather than the two NSF had requested,» but the «research and education accounts were held flat, at $ 6.033 billion and $ 880 million, respectively, as was the agency's internal operating budget.

That figure added $ 187 million to the administration's initial 2018 request, based on what Ross said were cost overruns in a new computer system for coordinating the agency's preparations for the headcount.

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.

The request proposes cutting $ 163 million from the agency's chronic disease prevention programs, which aim to reduce incidence of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.

The deal didn't cover NASA, however, so Congress's action — or lack of it — in effect freezes the space agency's 2007 budget at 2006 levels — $ 545 million below the president's $ 16.7 billion request for FY 2007.

That's an increase of $ 364 million over 2014 levels, and half a billion dollars beyond the agency's request.

Next week, President Barack Obama will propose a $ 300 million cut in NASA's planetary science programs as part of his 2013 request for the agency, ScienceInsider has learned.

The DOE says that it will request $ 241 million for fiscal year 2009 to demonstrate technologies for cost - effective carbon capture and storage for coal - fired power plants — including $ 156 million for the restructured FutureGen approach (aimed at commercializing the technology by 2015) and $ 85 million for the agency's Clean Coal Power Initiative.

Assembled and led by the FDA, the network participants — which include health - care insurers and providers — will have the ability to search millions of their own database records at the agency's request.

The United States Senate appropriations committee is set to approve a NASA budget for 2010 that mirrors President Barack Obama's $ 18.7 billion request for the agency, setting up a fight with the House of Representatives, which slashed $ 212 million from the funds sought by NASA for its human exploration program.

But the bill allocates an additional $ 47 million to the agency, a resounding rejection of the administration's request.

In 2011, law enforcement agencies made more than 1.3 million requests for customer cell phone records, according to a new Congressional report.

Last year his budget requested $ 90 million to create an Advanced Research Projects Agency - Education (ARPA - ED).

That's $ 168 million less than the Obama Administration had requested and $ 50 million less than the agency received this year.

Bolden answered that if Congress were to grant the $ 858 million that NASA requested in the 2015 budget for the development of a commercial crew vehicle, the agency would expect to have access to the space station without reliance on the Russians by 2017.

House appropriators also reduced the amount allotted for the new Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), which received $ 400 million in last year's $ 787 billion stimulus package, from a requested $ 300 million to $ 220 million.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) would receive $ 883 million, a $ 36 million cut from the Administration's request but still a $ 26 million boost over the $ 857 million the agency got this year.

Its overall allocation of $ 52.7 billion for all the agencies under its jurisdiction was $ 626 million less than the panel received in 2011, and a whopping $ 5 billion below the president's 2012 request for those agencies.

The space agency received $ 13.65 billion, $ 100 million above the request and close to the 1997 level.

The appropriations committee's 2015 spending level for NSF is actually $ 150 million higher than what President Barack Obama requested for the agency.

Repeats last's years request for $ 325 million for the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy; Congress gave just $ 275 million.

DOE has requested $ 15 million in its 2012 budget to keep the mine dry, while NSF's 2012 request says explicitly that the agency has «terminated» the project and redistributed $ 36 million to other activities within its physics program.

By expanding NOAA research — now at about $ 10 million, but the agency requested a 50 % boost for FY 2011 — the agency would be able to do more ecological and technological analysis to improve and monitor the sustainability of aquaculture operations.

One of the big winners was Navy basic research; the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was also granted a large increase of 6.3 percent in the House bill, not quite as much as requested but still $ 181 million above FY 2017 levels.

Before joining the Center, Daniel helped secure nearly $ 50 million in successful grant requests working for nonprofit agencies such as Easterseals Blake Foundation and United Way of Tucson Southern Arizona; he also served as an Americorps VISTA.

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.

Bolden repeated what he said yesterday that if the agency does not receive the full $ 822 million request for commercial crew in FY2014, «it will be my unfortunate duty» to tell Congress and the White House that the United States probably will not be able to launch astronauts by 2017.

Along with a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black, the initiative includes a legal defense fund, backed by $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women — like janitors, nurses, farm and factory workers, waitresses, hotel housekeepers — protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it; legislation to penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment, and to discourage the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence victims; and a drive to at long last reach gender parity at studios and talent agencies that reportedly has already begun making headway.

The federal agency rejected a request for a two - year, $ 3.1 million grant for the Scope, Sequence, and Coordination of High School Science Education project run by the Arlington, Va. - based National Science Teachers Association.

Johnson, who requested the $ 1 million audit, said he will rely heavily on the reviewers» findings when discussing potential cuts to the agency's budget.

The Administration has asked for an increase of $ 500 million for Preschool Development Grants in the FY16 budget request to expand this opportunity to more states, the Bureau of Indian Education, tribal educational agencies, territories, and the outlying areas.

The agency requests $ 851 million to continue its mission to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce economic costs due to road traffic crashes, through education, research, safety standards, and enforcement activity.

That includes the agency's regulatory budget being dropped $ 43 million from fiscal 2016 and $ 187 million below what Obama asked for in his fiscal 2017 request...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) which throws money at foreign nations, in their 2017 budget request asked for $ 352.2 million dollars to «invest» in «developing countries well suited to transition to climate - resilient, low emissions development strategies...»

The federal government has pledged $ 7.1 million to LAO after the agency requested $ 11.7 million to help fill a budget gap following a $ 26 - million deficit last December.