Sentences with phrase «appropriations bills into»

They've decided to bundle the 12 appropriations bills into four «minibus» packages, with the Senate poised to consider the first of these packages at the beginning of November.

The minibus moniker is a play on the «omnibus» tag used when Congress consolidates all 12 annual appropriations bills into a single package.

[7] An omnibus spending bill is simply a combination of multiple appropriations bills into one larger appropriations bill.

He said «following the receipt of full brief on the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the National Assembly, and to buttress the unity at the highest level of government, President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated that it is in the interest of the nation's economy for the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to sign the Appropriation Bill into law.

«It is as a result of that understanding and the outcome of our detailed engagements that we feel able to sign the 2017 Appropriations Bill into law today.

A few minutes ago, I signed the 2017 Appropriations Bill into law.

The statement read, «Following the receipt of a full brief on the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the National Assembly, and to buttress the unity at the highest level of government, President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated that it is in the interest of the nation's economy for the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to sign the Appropriation Bill into law.

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, to go ahead and sign the 2017 Appropriation Bill into law.

«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function of the National Assembly is to consider and pass the Appropriation Bill into law and that no money can be withdrawn or spent from the Consolidation Revenue Fund or any other public funds except with the authorization of the National Assembly.

President Obama recently signed the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill into law.

Not exact matches

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.

A United States House of Representatives appropriations bill (HR 2490) with a breastfeeding amendment was signed into law on September 29, 1999.

Paterson objected to what he deemed a «poison pill» inserted into an education appropriation bill by the Legislature.

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.

«(Cuomo) shoehorned into appropriations bills his top policy proposals [and] I think he's going to see how far he can go,» said NYPIRG's Blair Horner said.

On certain occasions, where less controversial bills have been passed into law, a package of the remaining appropriations bills will be bundled to finish funding work, and this package is known colloquially as a «minibus.»

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.

In the end, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared the budget on time, based on the passage of major appropriations bills that keep state government funded into the new fiscal year.

George Pataki by the Assembly, which believed he was overstepping his executive powers by inserting policy into appropriations bills, over which the Legislature has very little control.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo released his 30 - day budget amendments, which jammed the Legislature by stuffing ever more policy (particularly ethics reforms) into appropriations bills, on Feb. 21 — almost two weeks ago.

«Appropriations bills are one of the few things, whether individually or rolled into a package, that'll be passed this year,» Thaler noted.

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 acting president drew the attention of the House to discussions and agreements between the executive and legislature before the 2017 Appropriation Bill was signed into law.

The conference's deputy leader, Sen. Mike Gianaris, meanwhile, is among the lawmakers questioning Cuomo's use of inserting major policy measures into his $ 142 billion spending plan by tying them to appropriations bills.

For FY 2008, CAGW found that the porkers in Congress stuffed 11,610 separate pork projects into the 12 appropriations bills.

Appropriations bills must be passed by the Congress and signed into law by the President (or the President's veto must be overridden, if applicable) to become valid.

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.

The Presidency has expressed the optimism that the 2018 Appropriation Bill that President Muhammadu Buhari presented to the National Assembly on Tuesday will be passed into law early enough for its implementation to start in January.

The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has signed into law the state's 2018 Appropriation Bill of N343.9 bn.

Explaining further, Achife disclosed that after the 2012 appropriation bill was signed into Law, the government saw reason to reallocate within the budget and duly applied by way of a Supplementary Bill to the House for approbill was signed into Law, the government saw reason to reallocate within the budget and duly applied by way of a Supplementary Bill to the House for approBill to the House for approval.

«She also has consistently voted in support of additional funding in Congress to fight the heroin and opioid epidemic, including supporting the Appropriations Bill signed into law last May that contained a $ 650 million increase in funding to address the prevention and treatment of opioid and heroin use,» said Tom Flanagin, the spokesman.

«Finally, to ensure that the preparation of the Appropriation Bill is based on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, passed by the National Assembly, signed into law by the President and implemented by the Executive arm of government Section 51 of the Fiscal Responsibility Act has specifically clothed every citizen with the necessary locus standi or legal capacity to enforce the provisions of the law by obtaining prerogative orders or other remedies at the Federal High Court, without having to show any special particular interest.»

«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 contended that nowhere in the judgment did the court say «that the National Assembly has the power to increase or insert new items, like constituency projects, into the budget estimates contained in any Appropriation Bill or Supplementary Bill prepared and submitted to it by the President.»

The White House has announced that the President would sign the omnibus into law should it be adopted, though again, it stands virtually no chance of passage in the Senate, where appropriators have written appropriations bills to different overall funding levels.

«Mandatory spending — also known as direct spending — refers to any spending written into, and required by, laws other than appropriations bills,» the AAAS analysis explains.

That funding could be folded into the annual appropriations bill to fund the National Institutes of Health or be part of several measures aimed at speeding medical innovation that Congress may take up after the election.

If Congress can not pass separate appropriations bills, it could instead roll all spending into one package, called an omnibus bill.

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, fed up with the EPA's delay of more than a decade, wrote into the 2008 appropriations bill that the screening of possible endocrine - disrupting compounds was to begin last summer.

Even so, a fairly clear funding picture has emerged with the complete set of twelve appropriations bills already through committee, and appropriators» decisions so far will factor into omnibus negotiations later.

They likely will be combined into a single package called an Omnibus Appropriations bill for consideration by both chambers.

Each committee is broken into 12 smaller Appropriations subcommittees, and each subcommittee writes an appropriations bill for the programs under itsAppropriations subcommittees, and each subcommittee writes an appropriations bill for the programs under itsappropriations bill for the programs under its jurisdiction.

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.

1998 Education Appropriations Signed Into Law The 1998 appropriations bill provides «what is plainly the best year for American education in more than a generation,» says PresAppropriations Signed Into Law The 1998 appropriations bill provides «what is plainly the best year for American education in more than a generation,» says Presappropriations bill provides «what is plainly the best year for American education in more than a generation,» says President Clinton.

Washington — The House refused last week to override President Bush's Oct. 21 veto of the 1990 appropriations bill that includes funding for education programs, sending it into legislative limbo.

The Education Department was guaranteed $ 15.22 billion in fiscal 1984 under an appropriations bill signed into law by President Reagan on Oct. 31.

The omnibus legislation encompassed five remaining spending bills President Clinton had not signed into law, including the appropriations bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.

Last year, a lot of us in the education community were supportive of senators Specter and Harkin, a bipartisan team who actually wanted to put money back into an appropriations bill that funds labor, health, and education programs.

and Senate Appropriations Committee chairman Ted Stevens (R - Alaska) ultimately rolled the District measure into a catchall federal spending bill and defied Democrats to risk a government shutdown.