Sentences with phrase «appropriation process»

The annual appropriation process, at least in the form it has taken in recent years, is not suitable to support research in energy innovation.

Congress then approves or modifies those requests through its Authorization and Appropriation process.

Carol Kellermann, the president of nonpartisan fiscal watchdog Citizens Budget Commission, was equally outraged, telling The Observer, «Funds paid in settlement of litigation with the state, unless intended to compensate for specific losses, should be used as determined through the normal budget and appropriation process.

Shehu also stated that the President was delighted over the decision of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to submit 2018 budget proposals by October, while the National Assembly would conclude the Appropriation process by December 2017.

Discretionary spending: Spending decided upon by Congress through the annual appropriations process.

This is mostly done through adding work requirements into welfare programs, moving food stamps into the annual appropriations process and block granting them, and making other changes to income security programs to reduce spending.

What do you think of recent Congressional efforts to alter or weaken school nutrition standards via the appropriations process?

As noted at the end of the ABC report, however, regardless of what happens in the current appropriations process, the battle over school food will escalate considerably when the so - called Child Nutrition Authorization begins next year.

Both were to have supported farm to school efforts, but neither was actually funded in the appropriations process.

House Appropriations Committee The House Appropriations Committee holds jurisdiction over the annual appropriations process.

Senate Appropriations Committee The Senate Appropriations Committee holds jurisdiction over the annual appropriations process.

Congress, in its infinite wisdom, is again using the appropriations process to micromanage nutrition standards for school meals and the WIC program, against the advice of the Institute of Medicine and other health experts.

But it's important to remember that these actions are part of the appropriations process, not the Child Nutrition Reauthorization.

We need to continue to focus on cutting our debt and defecit in common sense ways, and hopefully, next year, the goal is to go through the regular appropriations process department by department, committee by committee, instead of one end of the year spending bill.»

In Congress, lawmakers regularly use policy riders to achieve specific goals during the appropriations process.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Monday named eight senators to the select committees tasked with overhauling the budget and appropriations process as well as providing recommendations for restoring the solvency of multiemployer pension plans.

Katko has also advocated for the program during the congressional appropriations process, said Erin O'Connor, Katko's communication director.

AAAS sent a letter to the incoming leadership and Appropriations Committee chairs, urging them to support federal research and development funding as they complete the Fiscal Year 2007 appropriations process.

, who stands to be majority leader, has said previously that he would use the appropriations process to push back at EPA regulations.

NASA will continue to work on the mission as the appropriations process plays out.

In Congress, the more practical approach might be for the GOP to threaten to withhold funding from EPA through the appropriations process unless the proposal is changed.

The appropriations process is sprawling and difficult to follow.

The appropriations process this summer operated at this level, resulting in modest appropriations for science agencies.

The discretionary budget — the part of the budget Congress has to allocate annually through the appropriations process — only represents about a third of all federal outlays, but contains virtually all science and technology spending.

Funding R&D initiatives that are part of these new mandatory spending requests would require new legislation outside of the traditional appropriations process, said the director of the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program at a 23 March briefing on Capitol Hill.

Yet $ 4.2 billion of the increased R&D funding would come from mandatory spending and would not be funded by the appropriations process.

However, Hourihan explained, most of that additional R&D funding would be categorized as «mandatory spending,» meaning that it would not happen without new legislation, separate from the regular appropriations process.

His ability to deliver on those promises will be put to the test as Congress works its way through the 2018 appropriations process.

That sidesteps the annual congressional appropriations process that divvies up what is known as discretionary spending, money from the government's general pot of tax and other revenue.

The disintegration of the regular appropriations process, with now - routine extensions beyond the 1 October start of the next fiscal year, makes prognostication even harder.

Within Congress, several lines of dispute have irretrievably disrupted the appropriations process.

For science and technology agencies, the current situation means yet another year of budget uncertainty under a several - week continuing resolution and an extended appropriations process.

«Had Mr. Smith's amendment actually done what he spoke about, it would have been subject to a point of order,» says the aide familiar with the appropriations process.

«The inclusion of these provisions threatens to undermine an orderly appropriations process,» Donovan wrote.

«This is the most encouraging thing, because this is where we came to grief last year, in the House appropriations process,» Jackson said.

the structure and organization of Congress, the U.S. federal budget and appropriations process, and tools for effective science communication and civic engagement that they can carry

NASA received substantially more than proposed during the appropriations process, and $ 756 million more than the President's request.

It created a 10 - year pot of money — to be used for specific initiatives at NIH — that has a mandated funding stream that is not subject to the annual appropriations process.

Workshop participants will discuss the structure and organization of Congress, the U.S. federal budget and appropriations process, and tools for effective science communication and civic engagement that they can carry throughout their careers.

The Senate insists that those are the budget targets for this year, but the House decided to pass a different, lower set of spending numbers to guide its appropriations process.

In identifying and examining these levers, this Article focuses not on the appropriations process but instead on the periods leading up to the annual submission of the President's budget to Congress and following the passage of the budget.15 This is not to say that the congressional appropriations process is irrelevant.16 Rather, OMB's power is rooted more in the system of executive authority that has developed around the budget cycle than in the ultimate appropriation.

The discretionary part of the agency's budget is still subject to OMB approval, so priority setting (for example, in the allocation of staff among activities and divisions) continues to be part of the annual appropriations process.169 Moreover, the President's budget may propose changes to mandatory spending, proposals that OMB has by definition approved.170 At least in the current and previous administrations, OMB has required agencies to submit, as part of their annual budget requests, a description of any effort to take discretionary action that would increase mandatory spending, and has strictly limited its approval of these efforts.171

Only a small subset of agencies are not affected by OMB's approval lever: those that are largely self - funded and obtain their budgets from non-governmental sources rather than the annual appropriations process.172 But these agencies are exceptions rather than the norm.173 The approval lever is generally applicable to and influential in both independent and executive agencies.

AAU said today that Congress is making good progress on the FY17 appropriations process but the picture is by no means all positive,

There is little, if any, expectation that the appropriations process will be done by then.

The appropriations process is still pretty toxic for clean energy and will be until the Dems take back Congress, but better that than what could have been had they...

The primary mission of the Friends of NIMHD is to advocate on behalf of the Institute during the annual congressional budget and appropriations process.

In New York, as in all other states, the normal appropriations process begins with the governor's creating the budget recommendations for education and other state services.

Rep. John A. Boehner, R - Ohio, made one thing perfectly clear last week: Any attempt to move special education funding from the «discretionary» to the «mandatory» side of the federal budget, a stratagem designed to shield special education from the annual appropriations process, would be a deal breaker on the reauthorizing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

That provision, however, was passed outside of the legislature's usual appropriations process, and Gov. Chiles said it was an infringement on school districts» ability to manage their general state aid.