Sentences with word «appropriators»

House appropriators also reduced the amount allotted for the new Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), which received $ 400 million in last year's $ 787 billion stimulus package, from a requested $ 300 million to $ 220 million.

Senate appropriators also granted a small increase for FAA's research, development, and engineering program, mostly for advanced materials research for commercial aviation.

Congressional appropriators in the House of Representatives have proposed a slightly less crippling 53 percent cut.

It certainly does for Lisa Rosen, a conservator of paintings, and her husband, the painter Walter Robinson, a crucial figure among the image appropriators of the Pictures Generation.

A continuing resolution just passed by appropriators in the House of Representatives provides only $ 3.3 billion for FDA's 2011 budget — far short of the Administration's 2012 objective — suggesting that it may be difficult to find common ground.

House appropriators also added over $ 600 million more for medical research in cancer and other areas, a much smaller amount than that provided in the FY 2017 omnibus; total medical research funding would thus drop by 38.1 percent in FY 2018.

Many in the science community will breathe a sigh of relief as DOE's basic research arm, the Office of Science, escaped a White House - proposed 17.1 percent cut, as appropriators opted for flat funding from FY 2017 levels.

The research funding marks a retreat from levels in a bill approved last summer by appropriators in the House, and holds to the figure in an earlier Senate bill.

In addition, nine Republican senators sent a letter to leading Senate appropriators urging them to eliminate federal involvement in state decisions on academic content standards.

In their version of the DOE budget for 2015, House appropriators gave ITER $ 225 million, $ 75 million more than the White House request.

The numbers this year have been very mixed so far for science programs, but that was with appropriators working with very limited spending caps.

House appropriators last week advanced a half - dozen 2018 budget bills that mostly ignore Trump's proposed double - digit cuts, and chose to hold spending at many agencies roughly at current levels.

House and Senate conferees were set to vote late last week on a spending - rescissions package that a key appropriator said would include $ 1 billion in cuts to education programs.

Notably, Senate appropriators rejected the Administration's proposed elimination of the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP); the House proposed a $ 30 million cut to MEP.

It's still early in the 2010 U.S. budget cycle but there's some sobering all the same: House of Representatives appropriators disapproved of plans by the National Science Foundation to spend $ 100 million on its Major Research Instrumentation program, saying the program has enough money for now.

Senate appropriators say that staff members of an ambitious children's health study at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have committed a «serious breach of trust» in withholding the ballooning costs of the project.

Anticipating the work of image appropriators Martha Rossler, Richard Prince, Silvia Kolbowski, and others, Heinecken (along with his peers, John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol) ushered postmodernism in with a bang.

The R&D spending increases are primarily due to House and Senate appropriators providing far more funding for the National Institutes of Health than Obama's fiscal 2017 budget blueprint proposed.

We are also disappointed in the authorized funding levels for Title I, which are less than those specified in the No Child Left Behind Act and appear to be based not on what students need to succeed but on what appropriators are willing to provide.

«As a senior appropriator on the Commerce, Justice and Science subcommittee, Congressman Schiff has a track record of support for important ocean and clean energy programs.»

Senate appropriators did side with the House in rejecting the Administration's proposed elimination of the National Sea Grant College Program.

The chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator John Hoeven (R - ND), said through a spokeswoman that although appropriators will work with the administration on a relief package, «we don't support paying for it by using all of the agricultural offsets in the administration's request.»

Democratic appropriators on Wednesday were quick to label the campaign finance provision as objectionable and said it would create a loophole that «effectively overrides» current spending limits for coordinated spending between campaigns and political parties.

If NAGB, NCES, the Education Department and Congressional appropriators get moving, it could surely happen by the 2021 NAEP cycle — and I'll bet it could be revived and re-piloted in at least a few states in 2019.

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And yet neither the House of Representatives Republican appropriators» proposal to tackle the deficit starting in 2011 nor Obama's new budget for next year tackles the real challenge of entitlements.

As appropriators work to craft an omnibus spending package to fund the federal government, one of them is making a pitch for additional funding to combat heroin.

House appropriators refuted the Administration's request to cut VA medical research, though bigger spending issues loomed.

The only problem is that congressional appropriators allocated only $ 15 million more than the $ 106 million NSF had requested for continued planning and the start of construction of two ships.

At the National Institute of Standards and Technology, scientific programs would face a 4 % cut rather than Trump's proposed 13 % reduction, although House appropriators balked at Trump's plan to eliminate its Manufacturing Extension Partnership, which helps domestic companies.

For example, last year House appropriators called for cutting the ARPA - E budget to $ 100 million.

Allen says that Commerce «doesn't want the program,» and last week House appropriators voted to kill funding for the Technology Administration.

«Cornell was a master appropriator, using the images of artists he admired as his way of engaging them in a meaningful dialogue.

On January 13, 2014, House and Senate appropriators released the Omnibus Appropriations Bill which restores the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) initiative.

On the science front, appropriators granted $ 698.2 million to the VA Medical & Prosthetic Research account, a 3.7 percent increase above FY 2017 levels, thus refuting the cuts sought by the Administration (see table; the Administration had also proposed an increase in research support dollars counted as R&D).

Well, Congress sent an additional $ 8.5 million to the OCR with appropriators directing the Secretary to staff up the office (DeVos had wanted to cut 46 positions).

These limits, dubbed «302 (b)» allocations, determine the size of each spending bill, and thus influence how much appropriators can give to agencies within each bill.

In addition to raising hackles among appropriators, such mandatory spending proposals also are subject to PAYGO rules requiring any new spending to be offset by revenue increases or spending cuts elsewhere in the budget.

Citizens» control over spending is not direct, of course, but in most Western countries public attitudes influence how well or how poorly appropriators fund science.

Senate appropriators moved this week to rise above some of the steep spending reductions included in President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 budget proposal that threaten to weaken the nation's science and technology enterprise and blunt the economic benefits that science programs deliver.

House appropriators took their first steps toward crafting an education budget late last week, approving on a party - line vote a Republican plan that is about $ 200 million shy of education spending levels for this year.

But House appropriators prevailed over their Senate counterparts in ordering NSF to launch a $ 15 million program for Hispanic college students, something that NSF says it's already doing as part of a broader outreach to underrepresented minorities.

That may not be working out in some areas (like health care), but House appropriators made good progress on FY2018 appropriations bills, including defense (which cleared full committee) and Commerce - Justice - Science (approved at the subcommittee level).

With the continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the government when the fiscal year starts on October 1 set to expire on December 8, the final budget resolution's FY 2018 cap will affect the spending limits appropriators have to work with.

Three lawmakers are urgent condo appropriators to fully fund a key cybersecurity program on the branch of...

Freud discriminated, scientifically, where Jung religiously embraced everything, an equal - opportunity appropriator of whatever poetic visions «worked».

But there's another reason this race could be notable for the conservative hardliners: Taking out a longtime appropriator would serve as a sweet follow - up to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's primary loss in Virginia two weeks ago.