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After five years of bitter clashes, Republican congressional leaders and President Obama last night appeared to settle their final budget fight by reaching a tentative deal that would modestly increase spending over the next two years, cut some social programs, and raise the federal borrowing limit.
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Through the budget reconciliation process — which would avoid a drawn - out fight and filibuster by Democrats — Republicans can adjust only parts of the law that have to do with the federal government's finances.
Public housing vouchers for the poor are targeted as well, much to the consternation of the pragmatic - minded lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose programs were significantly curbed by a hard - fought 2011 budget and debt agreement.
The Gates Foundation has quickly become a major influence upon global health; the approximately US$ 800 million that the foundation gives every year for global health approaches the an - nual budget of the United Nations World Health Organization (193 nations) and is comparable to the funds given to fight infe - ctious di - sease by the United States Agency for International Development.
Unfortunately, budget constraints brought about by the continued fight for Falmer meant it was a struggle.
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That little joke was about the traditional budget fight that involved battle ships captained by himself, Skelos and Silver, with the «special interests» as torpedos.
The budget resolution backed by Republicans in the state Senate on Thursday rejects $ 1 billion in tax increases while also seeking to spend $ 265 million on fighting the opioid addiction epidemic and bolster school security in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida.
The money raised by the taxes in part would go toward a potential boost in education spending, an apparent sticking point in the talks as lawmakers and Cuomo fight over what's known as foundation aid in the budget.
«We fought, and we ultimately were not successful, but he cut the MTA budget by $ 65 million,» Dinowitz said.
And while I am flattered by their support, this would be a very difficult time for me to divert my attention from deliberations on the state budget, to a political fight for what could easily turn out to be a very short term in the House of Representatives.»
«The Assembly showed admirable leadership this session by including speed safety camera expansion in their one - house budget, but petty politics and obstructionism led by a single state senator means that family members and victims of traffic violence will have to continue their fight during the legislative session,» a press release by Transportation Alternatives stated.
If Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature are serious about streamlining the budget then CoBIS ought to be abolished and its resources reallocated by the State Police to proven crime - fighting programs.
«Is it correct to suggest that the budget of over $ 2 billion to purchase arms for Nigerian soldiers fighting Boko Haram in the North - East of the country was authorised by you or your office?
The unusually high percentage of school budgets that passed yesterday in spite of dire predictions by everyone from Gov. David Paterson on down has become fodder for the teachers union and its allies in the fight to restore $ 1.4 billion worth of education cuts proposed by the governor.
She says the remaining fight is over how much control Cuomo's budget department has in handing out the funds, and whether total cost for counties» legal defense services would be financed by the state, or only a portion.
As The Washington Post recently reported, «the Trump administration is reducing the role of the federal government in fighting discrimination and protecting minorities by cutting budgets, dissolving programs and appointing officials
Other things to watch out for as the session comes to a close: The budget «clean - up» bill, a fight between Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos and his co-leader, Jeff Klein, over a plan to lower NYC's speed limit, teacher evaluation talks, and the home health aide program bill backed by 1199.
Mayoral control is set to expire in June, after state pols passed on a proposal to avoid a protracted fight by including a temporary extension in the state budget.
Pro AIDS treatment activists, led by VOCAL NY's Reginald Brown, center, announce plans to stay at the Capitol until the budget includes more money to fight the disease.
Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are ready to break a hard - fought budget deal with Democrats as they try to quell a revolt by conservatives who are insisting on deeper spending cuts ahead of the November elections.
ALBANY - ALBANY — Setting up a budget fight on education, the Democrat - led state Assembly said Thursday it opposed Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's call for a tuition hike at state universities and favored boosting aid to K - 12 schools by $ 2.1 billion — more than double the increase the governor suggested.
Still, legislative leaders are insisting the ethics fight won't scuttle an on - time budget from begin approved by April 1.
Highlighting the stories of area residents who have been directly impacted by past budget cuts, the NYInequality coalition is seeking to persuade local lawmakers to fight back against giving the wealthiest another tax windfall, especially since New York ranks first in the nation for income inequality.
He seemed energized by the fight, as you can see in the video he recently posted of the (ultimately ineffective) rallies held in Albany leading up to the budget deal.
The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.
Reporters asked Zucker whether he felt too constrained by the budget targets to advocate for more money to fight tick borne illnesses.
The Moreland Commission never had a specific budget allocation — a point made repeatedly by legislators who resisted its inquiries and formally fought subpoenas — but was funded out of other executive branch agencies.
-- Corwin launched a radio ad that describes her as a «small businesswoman» and «conservative voice» who will «fight to cut federal spending» and «balance the federal budget» and «protect out Constitutional freedoms by taking on Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.»
Funding for Gotbaum's office will be cut by about 40 percent after the City Council reached a budget deal last week — a move that the public advocate called «political payback» for not supporting Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) during the fight to extend term limits last fall.
«As the Council begins our Executive Budget hearings on May 6th, we will continue to strongly push for critical investments that will greatly expand employment opportunities for our young people by increasing the number of year round and summer youth jobs, advocating for vital legal services and workforce development skills to support our growing immigrant population and fighting to combat food insecurity in our City,» they said.
«This is the first budget plan by the new governor and it includes many Democratic priorities that continue or expand upon policies that we have fought for in recent years,» the statement said.
«Addressing alleged corruption in the budget process by pursuing prosecution of indicted principal officers of the National Assembly will provide an important opportunity for the Federal Government to reignite the fight against corruption and fulfil a cardinal campaign promise, to show that the Federal Government works on behalf of the many, and not the few, as well as jumpstart economic activities and break the back of the recession.»
«When Leader John Boehner, Paul Ryan and House Republican leaders put privatizing Social Security and dismantling Medicare into their budget they drew a bright line: House Republicans fight for Wall Street, while Democrats fight for seniors who've worked hard and played by the rules,» said Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee communications director Jen Crider.
The NYS budget effort was sparked by the national Fight For $ 15 movement, and carried forward by thousands of community organizations, faith leaders, union members, and elected officials, including Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
She says the remaining fight is over how much control Cuomo's budget department has in handing out the funds, and whether the total cost for counties legal defense services would be financed by the state or only a portion.
Their progress reducing the 2011 federal budget by $ 100 billion and their determination to continue the fight as part of the debt ceiling increase have been some of the best things we have seen come out of Washington in the last 2 1/2 years.
Perhaps the bottom line, then, is that while the Obama Administration did what it could — at times generously so — on science and innovation funding, such investments and others in the discretionary budget have been secondary to the bigger fights that truly define our fiscal politics, over healthcare, retirement, deficits and debt, levels of taxation, and so on (and it can't be underestimated how truly intractable these challenges really are, as indicated by the labyrinthine wrangling and ultimate failure of the President's Bowles - Simpson deficit commission).
The United States Senate appropriations committee is set to approve a NASA budget for 2010 that mirrors President Barack Obama's $ 18.7 billion request for the agency, setting up a fight with the House of Representatives, which slashed $ 212 million from the funds sought by NASA for its human exploration program.
Comic book artists aren't bound by visual effects budgets, so they're allowed to give us priceless imaginations on paper: new worlds on every page, mystifying beings, dazzling spacecraft, spellbinding powers, and megaton fights.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 23, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hunger Games (PG - 13 for intense violence and disturbing images) Screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins» futuristic sci - fi novel about a 16 year - old girl (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to take her unlucky younger sister's (Willow Shields) place in a nationally - televised fight to the death featuring 24 participants picked by a government lottery.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 6, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Watchmen (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity and graphic violence) Sci - fi thriller, based on the graphic comic book series of the same name, about a group of vigilantes determined to avenge the murder of a crime - fighting superhero.
The fight ended abruptly in Round 3 this past Tuesday night with a TKO: Despite a flurry of long and hard — and well - attended — budget workshops over the past week, and hundreds of suggestions offered for how to cut expenses and increase revenue, to improve the rejected budget, the board, again by a vote of 4 to 3, reimposed that same rejected budget.
The happy version, if you're Duncan, is that hard - pressed states are thankful for any relief, and Congress is too distracted by fights over the gas tax, the FAA, the super-committee proposal, and next year's budget to pay attention.
Pennsylvania has the largest funding gap between wealthy and low - income school districts of any state in the country, a problem exacerbated by the current impasse in the state budget fight.
Lawmakers continued to face an impasse in budget talks this week by fighting over whether to ditch teacher assistants in the state's elementary classrooms as a way to pay for teacher salary increases.
The weeklong teachers» strike in Chicago has crippled the nation's third - largest public school system as union leaders fought against budget cuts and a reform agenda laid out by the city's Democratic mayor, Rahm Emanuel.
«Kumbaya, that's your word,» Emanuel said with a laugh as he returned to the scrum of TV cameras and made a case for the common interests he has been arguing for months that the teachers union and the city share in their fight with Rauner to help close a $ 480 million budget gap driven by pension costs.
U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer said he's fighting the Environmental Protection Agency's 31 percent budget cut by the Trump Administration.
Also, just a reminder: Thanks to budget cuts demanded by the GOP, $ 512 million has been gutted from funding for preventing and fighting forest fires.