Sentences with phrase «changes in federal spending»

Looking at annual changes in federal spending against annual changes in the Fed Funds target rate, since 1956 there is no consistently significant relationship.

President Donald Trump's infrastructure agenda, unveiled on August 15, centered on rescinding Obama - era plans to require consideration of flood risk and climate change in any federal spending for infrastructure or housing and the like.

Not exact matches

The federal government will spend $ 8.5 million to change the traffic lines on all Mitchell and Kwinana freeway on - ramps in an effort to improve traffic merging and remove the stigma widely associated with Perth drivers.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

Republicans could try to use the budget reconciliation process, which requires only a simply majority in the Senate, to make changes to Dodd - Frank regulations that affect federal spending and taxes.

But I would argue that nothing has really changed in policymakers» attitudes towards spending, that the federal fisc has been rescued by the happy accident of aggressive revenue collection and decent economic growth.

Off - budget: Federal government expenditures on certain programs, agencies, and government sponsored enterprises that are accounted for separately in the budget to prevent spending changes or avoid a conflict of interest.

Tom Angell, of the pro-marijuana legalization group Marijuana Majority, said in an email that «while most of our federal gains to date have been through amendments attached to much broader spending bills, I'm hopeful that with the growing number of states changing their laws these stand - alone bills [like Garrett's] will get enough traction to at least finally start getting hearings.»

In relative terms, this will not change even if the federal government increases its social spending.

Several Democrats also indicated that changes to the state tax code, designed as workarounds on new federal limits on the deductibility of state and local taxes, will be part of the spending plan in some form.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is poised to unveil his state budget proposal, a spending plan that is likely to call for big changes to state taxes in response to the federal tax overhaul.

Albert said if there's another recession, or if proposed federal health care changes are enacted, New York state could have far less money to spend on schools in the future.

The city is planning to spend $ 337 million in the coming fiscal year to shore up the bleak financial situation for its Health and Hospitals Corporation, which de Blasio said was struggling under the weight of detrimental changes in federal reimbursements for Medicaid and health costs.

«I think it's some of the time that's going to be best spent in the next few weeks because if it helps us change the trajectory of the country and the federal government, that's going to help New York City in a very big and very material way,» de Blasio said of campaigning for Clinton.

Albert says if there's another recession, or if proposed federal health care changes are enacted, New York State could have far less money to spend on schools in the future.

There's a real sense of hope that Robinson will bring representation and change to the long - struggling neighborhood, even as he tries to shed the stigma of a drug - related past that included running a marijuana enterprise and spending more than six years in federal prison.

Figure 2 shows «average» proposed year - over-year changes to the federal R&D budget by major spending category in the eight Obama - submitted budgets (FY 2010 through FY 2017), based mostly on historical estimates compiled by AAAS, alongside the same data for President Bush (FY 2001 through FY 2009) for comparison.

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This matters because discretionary spending is where just about all science and technology lives in the federal budget, and House appropriators have written their spending bills with these changes in mind.

Congressional appropriators so far have largely rejected those changes in working up a 2018 budget, and Congress has the final say on federal spending.

One outside speaker, Arthur Bienenstock, a physics professor emeritus and special assistant to the president of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, for federal research policy, cited a proposal to change how universities are reimbursed for the cost of supporting federally funded research that would have resulted in scientists spending less time in the lab.

While NASA's $ 200 million funding reduction pales in comparison to cuts that would face some federal agencies under the proposed budget (which has to be reviewed and approved by Congress before becoming official), it would make significant changes to how those dollars are spent.

They argue that it puts too much pressure on the disabled child, generates unreliable performance numbers, wastes resources that would be better spent on services for youngsters, and is unnecessary in light of changes to federal law as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

The district made the change because it anticipated a significant drop in federal funding during the recession, and needed to prioritize how it spent precious federal dollars on schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

Susan, now 53, is planning to retire in about two years, at which time she will have spent 34 years in the federal public service (we've changed both their names to protect their privacy).

At the end of this calendar year, substantial changes in Federal taxation and spending are scheduled to become law.

These changes promise several hundred billion dollars in reduced federal spending and increased taxation.

CBO periodically issues a compendium of policy options (called Options for Reducing the Deficit) covering a broad range of issues, as well as separate reports that include options for changing federal tax and spending policies in particular areas.

The federal Department of Energy had pledged to cover half the cost, but AEP said it was unwilling to spend the remainder in a political climate that had changed strikingly since it began the project.

Haapala reproached, «The fear of climate change has distorted spending priorities in the Federal government.»

In fiscal 2014, the U.S. Global Change Research Program — a joint effort of 10 federal agencies — spent almost $ 2.5 billion on climate change and other earth systems scientific resChange Research Program — a joint effort of 10 federal agencies — spent almost $ 2.5 billion on climate change and other earth systems scientific reschange and other earth systems scientific research.

One source in a report to the federal Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture (44) makes the claim that «Governments can use three broad tools to effect change: spending, incentives, and regulation....

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

On the premise of fighting climate change, the Obama Administration has positioned the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, vehicles, and oil exploration, and taxpayers are being forced to spend billions of extra dollars in an attempt to transition to a carbon - free economy.

And, according to author and environmental activist Amy Larkin, the environmental impact of climate change is an actual financial issue: «Would you rather federal, state, and local governments spend our money on preventing extreme weather in the future or on recovering from extreme weather?

These changes have broadened my perspective of what my customers need; a service provider that can manage their filings regardless of where the federal government is currently in terms of staying open or approving a budget, and reduced overhead so they can spend money on growing their business.

Exploring issues, including data security, technology adoption, changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure («FRCP») and retention policies, the study enables in - house counsel to appraise their department's size, procedures, spending and workflows against the industry standard.

It is federal budget season again, and President Barack Obama is pushing for big investments and changes in early education, proposing healthy increases in spending on home visiting, preschool and Head Start.

The spending bill also includes $ 5 million to fund grants to support infant and early childhood mental health, a first - time federal investment, as well as a $ 115 million increase for Early Head Start, a crucial program that can change the course for infants and toddlers living in poverty.