Sentences with phrase «budget request seeks»

The president's just - announced FY 2008 budget request seeks a 5 % increase to NASA's budget — but all the extra money would go to the agency's various exploration - related programs.

Not exact matches

Congress did as the gun lobby requested, blocking the quarterly report proposal and reducing the ATF's budget by $ 5 million: the amount the agency had sought to update its computer capacity.

That nearly totals the $ 400 million Mayor Bill de Blasio is seeking from Gov. Andrew Cuomo in past and future budget requests, which has been central to an ongoing feud between the two Democrats.

The measures were requested city officials and state lawmakers who represent the area as its school district seeks to plug yet another budget deficit.

Madison TIF Coordinator Joe Gromacki said there were no surprises in the request and Hammes is still seeking the $ 16 million the city authorized in its 2010 budget.

The infrastructure plan surfaced the same day as Trump unveiled the administration's annual budget request, which seeks to remedy the deficit embodied in the tax law enacted in December through a decade's worth of spending cuts amounting to $ 3.6 trillion.

It is worth noting that this reckless commitment above the budgeted amount was questioned by the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) in December 2016 when COCOBOD needed to seek approval to award additional contracts and the Authority inquired about the availability of budgetary provision to enable it to approve the requested contract awards.

«The CUNY Board of Trustees has approved an operating budget request for FY2017 - 18 that seeks increased state and city investment in faculty hiring, new research, expanding college access and other initiatives necessary to provide our students with an affordable, high - quality education,» Arena said in an emailed statement.

According to the statement, «As at today, the only request for approval from the Executive for loan was the one dated January 27, 2017 and signed by Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo seeking a «resolution of the National Assembly For the Issuance of USD 1 Billion EuroBond In the International Capital Market For The Funding of the 2016 Budget Deficit» and we immediately granted the approval.

As mentioned in yesterday's quick summary, the Trump Administration's full budget request is seeking historically large cutbacks in federal science and technology programs, particularly to basic and applied research (see table at right; updated on June 6 with additional agency data).

The topic of the event, the 10th annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, could hardly have been more timely, given the February budget request from President Obama that sought to drastically change NASA's direction for human spaceflight and the way the agency does that business.

In its 2017 budget request released earlier this year, NSF sought $ 106 million to begin construction of the two ships, and estimated a total project cost of $ 255 million spread out over 3 years.

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.

Twenty - two Democratic senators are telling U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that he should make sure rural schools get a fair shot at the roughly $ 3 billion in new competitive - grant money the Education Department is seeking in the president's fiscal 2011 budget request.

• The budget seeks to reorganize (streamline) existing STEM programs and requests $ 170m in new funds for advancing STEM education, including preparing more STEM educators.

Today's deadline comes as President Barack Obama announced his plans to seek $ 1.35 billion from Congress in his fiscal 2011 budget request to extend Race to the Top for another year and open it up to school districts.

The Department of Energy is currently seeking $ 648 million for «clean coal» projects in its 2009 budget request, «representing the largest budget request for coal RD&D in over 25 years.»

The budget request includes language on a «Clean Energy Standard» that seeks to generate 80 percent of the country's electrical power from solar, wind and (the arguably green) nuclear and natural gas by 2035.

If you're seeking a slice of Android Jelly Bean without parting with too many pennies, Sony requests you direct your attention to its new, budget Xperia E handset.