Sentences with phrase «balanced budget speech»

Gray adds: «Overall it was a far more balanced budget speech than initially expected, with a focus on rebuilding, which is in line with the newly elected President Cyril Ramaphosa's messaging.»

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Immediately after explaining in his budget speech why the government would not be keeping its commitment to balancing the books, Finance Minister Charles Sousa talked about the need to give hospitals the biggest funding increase they have seen in almost a decade.

Balancing high - flown ambition and ethical housecleaning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out his agenda for 2016 in a speech that did double duty as his State of the State address and a $ 145 billion executive budget proposal.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, in a swan - song speech to a corporate audience in Manhattan, trumpeted the balanced budget that his administration has left for its successor.

In his hourlong speech before a joint session of the House and Senate, Mr. Clinton portrayed himself as eager to work out deals on a balanced budget and welfare reform despite an intransigent Republican Congress insistent on spending cuts «that undermine our obligations to our parents, our children, and our future.»

By way of setting the stage for today's budget speech, Finance Minister Joe Ceci told the media Monday that completion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline to the British Columbia Coast near Vancouver is the key to Alberta balancing its budget.