Sentences with phrase «appropriations bill language»

Because final program - by - program allocations of R&D funding are not available until several months after appropriations actions, AAAS estimates of R&D are based on agency data, historical trends for R&D within appropriations, appropriations bill language, committee report language, and other supplementary data, and should be considered estimates at all times.

In doing so, these individuals publicly broke rank with their own organization, which is currently urging Congress to include in the 2015 appropriations bill language which would allow struggling school districts to opt out of healthier meal standards.

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.

Our 300,000 + signature count alone wasn't going to change anything in Congress, but that huge outpouring of grassroots support helped elected officials like Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro and Chellie Pingree get the language we wanted in the 2015 Appropriations Bill.

Because regardless of what happens with SNA's desired one - year waiver language in the pending 2015 appropriations bill, the 2015 Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) is looming large and the SNA clearly views the CNR as its best chance to permanently roll back key HHFKA nutrition standards relating to sodium, whole grains, fruits and vegetables and a la carte offerings.

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 fAppropriations 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 fappropriations 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.

Now Rep. DeLauro has secured language in the Agriculture Appropriations bill's report which would require the USDA to issue minimum national standards on this issue, despite its earlier reluctance to do so.

The most immediate threat is posed by legislative efforts to include language in the pending Agriculture Appropriations bill which would weaken or remove various school food requirements.

They are backing similar language in the appropriations bills moving through Congress now.

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.

Furthermore, if SNA's current request for school meal waiver language in the 2015 appropriations bill is successful, schools obtaining such waivers are very likely to return to the old system, causing harm to the produce industry.

Potato lobbyists got Congress to insert language in the 2014 Agriculture Appropriations bill urging the USDA to allow white potatoes in the package.

(Two appropriations bills and two language bills).

Glick's comments were in response to Cuomo's original budget proposal, which included some policy language in appropriations bills.

«There is a lot of policy language interwoven in the appropriations bills, so we need to take a strong look at that,» Young said.

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.

The Legislature must make clear what language in the Governor's proposed appropriations bills must be modified to keep vital public services operating effectively and efficiently.

The state's highest court said a governor is allowed to insert language into the budget's appropriations bills to change policies, and the Senate and Assembly are limited to just a «yes» or «no» vote on the amount of money allotted for the program.

When I served as Secretary of the Ways and Means Committee in the mid 1980s, the Governor and the Legislature both operated under the understanding that the Legislature could amend the «terms and conditions» language that the Governor included in his proposed appropriations bills and that the Governor could veto those changes if he disagreed with them.

This bill would «amend appropriations language that serves to discourage federal research on gun violence,» and underscores the importance of such work, Leshner wrote.

The language in its pending 2018 spending bill — approved last night by the appropriations committee for the U.S. House of Representatives — could also rekindle a smoldering debate over whether Congress should set parameters for how much NSF invests in specific disciplines.

But the fact that it wasn't included in this year's budget — or even in the president's budget — isn't very surprising, Watters says, given that the same language has been in the last two appropriations bills as well.

In 2016, dozens of environmental groups submitted a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee urging members to reject any language in an upcoming appropriations bill that might deem biomass a carbon - neutral Appropriations Committee urging members to reject any language in an upcoming appropriations bill that might deem biomass a carbon - neutral appropriations bill that might deem biomass a carbon - neutral energy source.

As the appropriations bill heads for a possible House vote this week, Representative Ernest J. Istook Jr. (R - OK), who wrote the language, and House Labor / HHS subcommittee chair Ralph Regula (R - OH) are preparing to issue a statement on the House floor that would modify the directive.

The language, tucked into the 2012 appropriations bill for NSF and several other agencies, urged that the selection be made «expeditiously and utilize a fully competitive process, with a solicitation issued no later than the end of calendar year 2011 and a result announced no later than July 31, 2012.»

Congress ruled out all human embryo research funded by the entire Department of Health and Human Services, NIH's parent agency, in language in the 1996 and 1997 appropriations bills.

The Senate's version of the same spending bill was approved by the Appropriations Committee last week without any such language, although amendments are expected when the bill goes to the floor next month.

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.

Buried on page 166 of the Appropriations Committee report accompanying the $ 105 - billion spending bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education was a statement of support for the flexibility that Mr. Bennett seeks in the bilingual - education program — which now mandates use of the transitional method, in which non-English-speaking students receive some instruction in their native language.

In the Department's fiscal year (FY) 2006 appropriations bill, Congress also included language overriding the statutory provision that SEAs use 50 percent of the amount available for grants to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) for formula awards and 50 percent for competitive awards.

Weber promised to tighten the bill's language to prevent that scenario, but the Assembly Appropriations Committee, chaired by Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D - San Diego, a former labor leader and organizer, made that issue moot by eliminating the potential fourth and fifth year of probation.

«The money should follow the child,» said Sen. Chad Barefoot, talking about one provision of a House bill he presented to Senate Finance members on Monday afternoon that previously dealt with school playgrounds — but was gutted and jammed with language that would change the way charter schools receive money by allowing them to receive millions more in sales taxes, property taxes, grant funds and federal appropriations, and more.

«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.

The US Federal government has provided a $ 3M solicitation from the DOE to support the development of DAC systems, and there is language providing $ 250k for research and development in the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Bill report language.

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America released the following statement condemning language restricting women's access to reproductive health care in the FY 14 House Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill and praising two pro-women's health amendments introduced at today's markup of the legislation in the House Appropriations Committee.

NAR is also working to get Mortgage Choice Act language included in bills moving through the appropriations process.