Sentences with phrase «agencies spent about»

What's more, federal agencies spent about $ 4 billion on «sensors and data collectors» between 2011 and 2015, according to the business intelligence platform Govini.

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One board member, who had run a large marketing agency, took things into her own hands and spent a year going around campus in stealth mode, talking to deans and other board members to see what they thought about the institution's brand.

A former aide to Scott Pruitt told members of Congress new details about the head of the Environmental Protection Agency's extravagant spending habits, which include the purchase of bulletproof weapons and vests, and leasing art from the Smithsonian for his office.

Both identify about $ 1.2 trillion in spending cuts to the day - to - day operating budgets of government agencies, though Reid's proposal also counts an extra $ 1 trillion in savings from winding down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

Eric Dahan, co-founder of InstaBrand, a social media marketing agency, spends his free time spearfishing and reading about quantum mechanics.

But since our boutique agency has begun growing and doing well, I've been spending more time thinking about scaling up.

Moon Express spent about a year working with the F.A.A., the State Department and other agencies to jerry - rig what Dr. Richards called a «temporary patch,» using the F.A.A.'s existing authority to review rocket payloads in order to gain the approval Moon Express was seeking.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

P&G Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard has made pointed comments in recent months about less than half of agency resources broadly being spent on creative resources.

The savings would represent about 5 per cent of direct program spending.Since that announcement, the Government has directed departments and agencies to find savings amounting to $ 8 billion or 10 per cent of direct program spending.

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt will make no reference to ethics issues or complaints about lavish spending on travel and security that have dogged him in recent months, according to an opening statement for an appearance before a House energy panel Thursday.

The report includes facts about lobbying spending that hit $ 2 billion in the last election cycle, and continues unabated, Wall Street executives in the Trump administration and regulatory agencies, tax cut windfalls for the finance industry, and a deregulatory free - for - all.

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is testifying in potentially make - or - break hearings on Capitol Hill, where he will face questions about spending and ethics scandals that have triggered...

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but how about the people here that think we should spend big money for an aging tight end in free agency?

147 SOUTH Host Dan McMillan spent time with the Orland Fire Protection District's Fire Chief Mike Schofield, EMS Officer Lt. Mark Duke, and Training Officer Lt. David Piper to learn more about the fire and EMS agency that serves a majority of the Village of Orland Park.

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt faces potentially make - or - break hearings today on Capitol Hill, where he is expected to be peppered with questions about spending and ethics scandals that have triggered bipartisan calls for his ouster.

Dfid's budget is not spent wisely, Clare Short told us all about that, alongside all of her criticisms of the EU's «worst development agency in the world» chatter — of which Dfid donates a third of its budget.

During an interview this morning with Susan Arbetter on The Capitol Pressroom, Lippman was unapologetic about the judiciary's budget, which Cuomo had hoped would reflect a decrease in spending along the lines of the 10 percent cut he's proposed for executive agencies.

State IG Catherine Leahy Scott has for several months been investigating operations at the state Office of Technology Services after receiving emailed complaints about a lengthy list of alleged spending abuses and waste in the agency, which oversees the data systems for a variety of state functions.

Turner said that if it were up to him, he would cut federal spending by 35 percent — including gutting the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and slashing the budget of the U.S. Department of Education — which he said would take about seven to 10 years to accomplish.

Johnson pointed out that it was the City Council's research that discovered that about 323,000 NYCHA residents had spent time without heat or hot water during the winter, noting that the agency failed to disclose it.

On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall joined fellow Democrats to question U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt about his ethical and spending decisions.

While the bill may include language about where advertising money can be spent, if the agency chooses to advertise the program, nothing in the budget bill requires the Cuomo administration to spend money on Start - Up NY advertising.

Concerned about the city's increased spending and possible future budget deficits, a majority of City Council members have appealed to Mayor Bill de Blasio to have his agencies evaluate their priorities and find ways to reduce spending before he releases his next preliminary budget.

«Oga [Mimiko] is worried about Ajimuda's arrest because we learnt that the man has been giving useful information to the anti-graft agency about how he had been spending the money and those who benefitted from the billions in Mimiko's government.

That $ 500,000 call offers only a clue about how lobbyists affect the billions of dollars spent each year by state agencies and their little - known relatives, the state authorities.

Even so, the increase for nondefense discretionary spending — a category that covers just about every research agency including NIH, NASA, and the National Science Foundation — is the largest since the original caps were first put in place in 2011 through the Budget Control Act.

He said that some of the money dedicated to opioids in the recent government - spending bill would be distributed to agencies to help purchase naloxone, and that he had been in talks with naloxone manufacturers, including Kaleo and Adapt Pharma, about pricing and access.

However, «[i] n a 2015 spending bill, [members of the U.S. Congress] asked NIH to come up with a 5 - year strategic plan,» which the agency unveiled after about a year of deliberation.

While the Senate's counterpart bill has not yet emerged from the subcommittee that funds NASA, Sen. Richard Shelby, R - Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, raised concerns about spending cuts included in the White House budget blueprint.

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.

Instead, he echoes a refrain heard frequently from Griffin: Americans won't complain about giving NASA more money once they understand what a tiny a piece of federal spending the agency accounts for.

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.

Using the publicly available data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and private insurance companies on how much money was spent on storm recovery, the scientists were able to show the volume of tweets about Sandy in New Jersey and New York was associated with how much money people in the area received for damages.

Although actual spending levels for all of these activities and more are determined by appropriations committees, the authorizing language represents the science committee's considered opinion about the relative importance of various research activities within those agencies.

Science Business has a long chat with Fotis C. Kafatos, the president of the European Research Council, about how the young funding agency is doing and his hopes that it will relatively soon have a budget approaching the $ 30 billion or so that the U.S. National Institutes of Health spends annually.

Like many federal agencies, the DoE has yet to spend more than a small fraction (about $ 2.1 billion, or 6 percent) of its total allocation.

Many federal agencies have so far spent a small fraction of allocated funds — in the DOE's case, only about 6 percent.

In 2009 the FDA plans to spend about $ 13 million on foreign inspections, but the GAO estimates that the agency would need $ 16 million to inspect all the plants in China alone.

But a congressional watchdog agency found it hard to be more specific about the impact of the controversial spending on the U.S. biomedical workforce.

The nation's federal and state research ministries spend about $ 1.5 billion a year on the centers, with grants from other German and European research agencies and industry adding another $ 500 million.

How about we stop spending 20 Billion a year on private military contractors, instead of freezing the budget on a peaceful and productive agency like NASA.

NASA has spent about $ 3 billion to date on the JWST program, which was conceived in 1996 as the successor to the agency's flagship Hubble Space Telescope.

219 The uncertainty about what will happen at the end of a continuing resolution thus amplifies the RMOs» attention to agency spending.

We spend more time watching Valerian propose to Laureline than we do learning about their agency or their characters.

In fact, my CRPE colleagues and I spend a lot of time studying and talking about what it takes to design and implement policies like these, especially in cities where the schools are made up of a mix of district and charter schools and multiple oversight agencies existing side by side.

The amount across all schools has risen by 27 % between 2011 - 12 and 2013 - 14 with schools on average spending about # 59,000 per year on supply agencies.

In small teams, teachers spend the first two weeks («Foundation») learning about the project's construct of student agency.