Buhari, who arrived at the assembly Chambers at 1.55 p.m., apologised for shifting the time for the presentation of
the appropriation bill from 10a.
Some financial experts on Friday faulted the increase in the oil benchmark of the 2018
appropriation bill from 45 dollars to 51 dollars by...
Some financial experts on Friday faulted the increase in the oil benchmark of the 2018
appropriation bill from 45 dollars to 51 dollars by the Senate.
The full House and Senate then debate and vote on
the appropriations bills from each of the 12 subcommittees.
Not exact matches
In 2014, Congress approved language in an
appropriations bill that prohibits the Drug Enforcement Agency
from raiding medical marijuana dispensaries that are compliant with state marijuana laws.
In the months that followed, the industry persuaded Georgia Congressman Tom Graves, whose district includes the syndication hotbed of Rome, to slip a rider into the federal
appropriations bill that would bar the IRS
from spending money to enforce the listing notice.
Organic industry advocates are anticipating that once the final rule is issued, its opponents may sponsor a Congressional lobbying effort to attach riders onto next year's national budget and
appropriations bills that could prohibit the USDA
from spending money to enforce the rule.
Meanwhile, the House
Appropriations subcommittee yesterday released its fiscal year 2015 agriculture appropriations bill, which included language that would allow any school district which operated its meal program at a loss for at least six months this past school year to seek a waiver from compliance in the coming year with the new, healthier school f
Appropriations subcommittee yesterday released its fiscal year 2015 agriculture
appropriations bill, which included language that would allow any school district which operated its meal program at a loss for at least six months this past school year to seek a waiver from compliance in the coming year with the new, healthier school f
appropriations bill, which included language that would allow any school district which operated its meal program at a loss for at least six months this past school year to seek a waiver
from compliance in the coming year with the new, healthier school food standards.
Democrats attempted to remove a provision
from the agriculture
appropriations bill that will give certain schools a waiver on compliance with nutrition standards.
SNA's decision to aggressively lobby for a controversial rider in a House agriculture
appropriations bill that would force the USDA to give schools waivers
from the nutrition standards next school year has sparked a civil war within the nutrition community and the association itself.
Yesterday the House
Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal 2015 spending
bill with controversial language, drafted by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - AL), which would allow struggling schools to request a 12 - month waiver
from complying with healthier school food standards.
``... ORDERED, that each and every Defendant, pursuant to Federal Rule of Procedure 65, is enjoined
from submitting, enacting, or implementing emergency
appropriations bills containing the furlough and wage provisions challenged in these actions.»
The Democrat - dominated Assembly declined to follow suit after receiving assurances
from then - governor Eliot Spitzer, also a Democrat, that he would discontinue the practice of putting substantive policy into
appropriations bills.
The restraining order also enjoins the governor
from submitting further extender
appropriation bills that include provisions requiring furloughs or exclude the payment of contracted - for salary raises.
Mashing up Google Earth and with the companies, universities and nonprofit recipients of earmarks in the House Defense
Appropriations bill (available
from Sunlight and Taxpayers for Common Sense on EarmarkWatch.org), citizens can get a bird's eye view of where members of Congress are shipping our defense dollars, and zoom in close on recipients.
Schumer says he has secured a commitment for more border patrol agents at the bridge
from Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson — that is, if the senator is successful in obtaining more funding for Customs and Border Protections in the fiscal year 2014 Senate
appropriations bill currently being negotiated.
The
Appropriation Bill as passed was raised
from N7.30 trillion proposed by the president to N7.44 trillion, indicating an increase of N143 billion by the lawmakers.
[10][11] Supplemental
appropriations bills also provide funding for recovering from unexpected natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy (the Disaster Relief Appropriatio
appropriations bills also provide funding for recovering
from unexpected natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy (the Disaster Relief
AppropriationsAppropriations Act, 2013).
Another set of big - ticket Cuomo priorities was already baked into this week's budget «extender»
bill: nearly $ 15 billion in capital
appropriations for purposes ranging
from basic infrastructure (highways, transit) to a $ 400 million second phase of Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative, a $ 700 million «community healthcare capital investment» in Brooklyn, and more 8 - figure allocations to the kind of «economic development» programs that have failed to rejuvenate Upstate.
Vetoing all
bills from the legislature, including
appropriations bills, subject to a legislative override (§ 17)
His proposal (HB 3653) received bi-partisan support; unanimously clearing the PreK - 12
Appropriations Subcommittee, and picking up a half dozen co-sponsors, ranging
from Republicans Jason Fischer and
Bill Hager to Democrats Joseph Geller, Jared Moskowitz, Emily Slosberg and Richard Stark.
The Democratic governor confirmed Tuesday that several of his policy proposals would be dropped
from the spending plan, which must be agreed to by March 31 and in which Cuomo has a higher degree of leverage over lawmakers by inserting language they can not change into
appropriation bills.
Speaking to reporters in Times Square, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said that as early as Wednesday, Democrats would move to add legislation to ban people suspected of terrorist inclinations
from accessing firearms as an amendment to a Justice Department
appropriations bill.
- All
appropriations based upon the budget to be paid
from taxes or revenues shall be incorporated in a single
bill which shall be called the general
appropriation bill.
Wisconsin governors have the power to strike out words, numbers, and even entire sentences
from appropriations bills.
Others are: Submission
from the Judiciary
Bill, Determination of Pre-Election Matters
Bill, Consequential Amendment on Civil Defence
Bill, Procedure for Overriding Presidential Veto in Constitutional Alteration, and Timeline for the Presentation of
Appropriation Bill.
The General Secretary of the largest opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC); Johnson Aseidu Nketia has said the move by the minority in parliament to abstain
from voting on the
appropriation bill was in the right direction.
The funds come
from the Disaster Relief
Appropriations Act, a bipartisan
bill passed by Congress in January to help states affected by Sandy.
«There is no doubt that the legislature has the power to alter but not in the sense of what they are doing now by inserting fresh items into the budget or removing projects sub-heads
from the
appropriation bill.
He said the ex-agitators who benefited
from the job opportunities had already been posted to various federal ministries awaiting approval of the 2018
Appropriation Bill by the National Assembly.
«Granted that a major component of the oversight function of the National Assembly is to consider and pass the
Appropriation Bill into law and that no money can be withdrawn or spent
from the Consolidation Revenue Fund or any other public funds except with the authorization of the National Assembly.
Requires the Controller to certify that a given budget
bill meets requirements regarding
appropriations from the General Fund before the
bill can be signed
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from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Regarding Fingerprint Reporting Guidelines [March 28, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Omnibus
Bill Funds for Scientific Research [March 23, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Omnibus Funding
Bill [March 22, 2018] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Death of Rep. Louise Slaughter [March 16, 2018] AAAS CEO Urges U.S. President and Congress to Lift Funding Restrictions on Gun Violence Research [March 13, 2018] AAAS Statements on Elections and Paper Ballots [March 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President's 2019 Budget Plan [February 12, 2018] AAAS Statement on FY 2018 Budget Deal and Continuing Resolution [February 9, 2018] AAAS Statement on President Trump's State of the Union Address [January 30, 2018] AAAS Statement on Continuing Resolution Urges FY 2018 Final Omnibus
Bill [January 22, 2018] AAAS Statement on U.S. Government Shutdown [January 20, 2018] Community Statement to OMB on Science and Government [December 19, 2017] AAAS CEO Response to Media Report on Use of «Science - Based» at CDC [December 15, 2017] Letter
from AAAS and the American Physical Society to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Regarding Scientist Ahmadreza Djalali [December 15, 2017] Multisociety Letter Conference Graduate Student Tax Provisions [December 7, 2017] Multisociety Letter Presses Senate to Preserve Higher Education Tax Benefits [November 29, 2017] AAAS Multisociety Letter on Tax Reform [November 15, 2017] AAAS Letter to U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1)[November 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on Release of National Climate Assessment Report [November 3, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Science Adviser Boards [October 31, 2017] AAAS Statement on EPA Restricting Scientist Communication of Research Results [October 25, 2017] Statement of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility [October 18, 2017] Scientific Societies» Letter on President Trump's Visa and Immigration Proclamation [October 17, 2017] AAAS Statement on U.S. Withdrawal
from UNESCO [October 12, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Proclamation on Immigration and Visas [September 25, 2017] AAAS Statement
from CEO Rush Holt on ARPA - E Reauthorization Act [September 8, 2017] AAAS Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Halt of Young Immigrant Program [September 6, 2017] AAAS Statement on Trump Administration Disbanding National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee [August 22, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Issues Statement On Death of Former Rep. Vern Ehlers [August 17, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt and 15 Other Science Society Leaders Request Climate Science Meeting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt [July 31, 2017] AAAS Encourages Congressional Appropriators to Invest in Research and Innovation [July 25, 2017] AAAS CEO Urges Secretary of State to Fill Post of Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House
Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing research and development funding in the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [
Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement
from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing research and development funding in the FY 2017 omnibus
appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [
appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017
Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [
Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter
from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter
from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending
Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June 28, 2016]
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.
The Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the Senate
Appropriations Committee today approved a fiscal year 2013 appropriations bill that would shift responsibility for building four major satellite systems from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (
Appropriations Committee today approved a fiscal year 2013
appropriations bill that would shift responsibility for building four major satellite systems from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (
appropriations bill that would shift responsibility for building four major satellite systems
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to NASA.
In a break
from tradition, however, the FIRST Act authorizes $ 127 million less for NSF next year than the $ 7.4 billion in the 2015
appropriations bill, which covers several federal agencies.
The omnibus fiscal 2016 budget
bill (H.R. 2029 - Consolidated
Appropriations Act 2016) passed in December 2015 contained language prohibiting the government
from using funds for experiments that genetically alter human embryos.
Jim Hillhouse, on September 26, 2015, commented after the AmericaSpace article «NASA Makes Improvements to Orion Heat Shield With Data Gathered
From EFT - 1» «As there is no superceding authorization, the 2010 Authorization Act remains in force today, providing the guidance for all subsequent and current
appropriations bills.»
Under a fiscal 1998
appropriations bill passed shortly before lawmakers left Washington last month, the path that money
from the largest federal K - 12 program follows into district coffers will be essentially unchanged next year, regardless of whether they are experiencing a population boom or bust.
A legislative conference committee this month snubbed the legislators» attempt to insert a measure prohibiting such use of public funds
from an
appropriations bill.
The fiscal 2000 spending
bill that the GOP unveiled last Thursday at an
appropriations «markup» hearing immediately came under fire
from the Clinton administration and some Washington - based education groups.
After months of advocacy meetings with state legislators, as well as grassroots engagement
from parents and educators, the
bill died in the Assembly
Appropriations Committee.
The
bill passed the Senate Education Committee with a 5 - 2 vote but still needs approval
from the
Appropriations Committee before it can be considered by the whole Senate.
The Institute of Education Sciences, the U.S. Department of Education's research arm, faces a $ 10 million cut in the Senate
bill and a whopping $ 164 million cut in the House
appropriations measure,
from its current fiscal year budget of $ 573.9 million.
The
bill also transfers $ 6 million
from the universal service fund and $ 5 million in fed money in DOA's federal e-rate
appropriation to the grant program.
In a letter
from May 25, 2017, thirty members of the U.S. Senate, led by Senator Al Franken (D-MN) with Senator Tom Carper (D - DE), asked Chairman Roy Blunt (R - MO) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D - WA) of the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies to fund Title II, Part A at $ 2.295 billion and SLRSP at $ 30 million in the FY 2018 approp
Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies to fund Title II, Part A at $ 2.295 billion and SLRSP at $ 30 million in the FY 2018
appropriationsappropriations bill.
The
bill is being voted on in the
Appropriations Committee and it is critical that legislators hear
from you about opposing it.
The
bill funds federal education programs at $ 2.9 billion below President Obama's FY13 budget request and $ 1.8 billion above the FY12 education budget; it is a marked departure
from the Senate's recently approved
appropriations bill, which maintains the aforementioned grant competitions.
In the Senate, the voucher program was stripped
from the DC
Appropriations bill before it hit the Senate floor because it was clear the bill could not pass with the program attached.The voucher program became law, nonetheless, when it was later inserted into the conference report of a $ 280 billion omnibus approp
Appropriations bill before it hit the Senate floor because it was clear the
bill could not pass with the program attached.The voucher program became law, nonetheless, when it was later inserted into the conference report of a $ 280 billion omnibus
appropriationsappropriations bill.
«The
bill's language is confusing,» said Hollamon, who pointed out several provisions within the legislation that contradict one another, like how funds for pre-kindergarten should be excluded
from having to be shared with charters, yet there still is a mandate that all federal
appropriations, such as those for Head Start, a federally - funded pre-kindergarten program, must be shared with charters.