Sentences with phrase «congressional spending bill»

Perhaps you missed President Donald Trump's shifty little political move last week on that massive congressional spending bill.

The congressional spending bill signed by the President on March 23 directs the FDA to take action against imitation dairy foods, «representing a victory for farmers and consumers alike,» said the Nat...

The Congressional spending bill passed last week offers some hope to student loan borrowers who previously thought they were ineligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The combined effects of President Trump's tax cuts and last month's budget - busting spending bill is sending the government's budget deficit toward the $ 1 trillion mark next year, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.

(Bloomberg)-- The White House is scaling back its plan to seek cuts from already - passed spending bills in the face of resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and spending panel Republicans, two GOP congressional aides briefed on the plan said Thursday.

WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders finalized a sweeping $ 1.3 trillion budget bill Wednesday that substantially boosts military and domestic spending but leaves behind young immigrant «Dreamers,» deprives President Donald Trump some of his border wall money and takes only incremental steps to address gun violence.

A congressional bill introduced in February, it proposes reforming the Johnson Amendment to allow pastors to maintain their free speech and political speech rights in their day - to - day roles, but restricts additional spending on political messaging — the kind that could turn churches into tax - free shelters for political fundraising.

Organic industry advocates are anticipating that once the final rule is issued, its opponents may sponsor a Congressional lobbying effort to attach riders onto next year's national budget and appropriations bills that could prohibit the USDA from spending money to enforce the rule.

As I reported here back in March, House lawmakers were able to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on two important new school food requirements: an increase in fruit served at breakfast and the implementation of the widely lauded «Smart Snacks in School» rules.

Unsure whether the congressional spending package referred to by many in Washington, D.C., as the «cromnibus» had enough votes to pass, House GOP leaders delayed a final vote Thursday afternoon, but, after 9 p.m., they managed to pass the bill 219 - 206.

Earlier this year, the SNA successfully lobbied to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill, advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on either requirement, if implementing the requirement would result in increased cost.

The omnibus spending bill now on the congressional launch pad is a something - for - everyone grab bag that contains a surprising amount of federal money for New York priorities, including rural broadband, the fight against opioidaddiction, and highway, rail and airport improvements.

Congressional leaders have clinched an agreement on a massive $ 1.3 trillion spending bill that President Donald Trump, for now, appears grudgingly willing to support.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio cheered a congressional spending agreement reached yesterday that would reimburse the city for the cost of its security perimeter around Trump Tower.

Congressional leaders finalized a sweeping $ 1.3 trillion budget bill that substantially boosts military and domestic spending but leaves behind young immigrant «Dreamers,» deprives Trump some of his border wall money and takes only incremental steps to address gun violence.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand slammed Congressional leaders for stripping anti-sexual harassment measures from an omnibus spending bill being considered this week.

WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders finalized a sweeping $ 1.3 trillion budget bill Wednesday that substantially boosts military and domestic spending but leaves behind young immigrant «Dreamers,» deprives President Donald Trump some of his border wall money and takes only incremental steps to address gun violence.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who's vowed to lead a campaign against New York's Republican Congressional representatives in the 2018 elections, has spent the final weeks of 2017 feuding with them over their votes on the federal tax overhaul bill.

New York (CNNMoney.com)- Congressional budget scorekeepers said that a grab - bag bill of spending and tax measures to be taken up this week would increase federal deficits by $ 134 billion over a decade.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who's vowed to lead a campaign against the state's Republican congressional representatives in the 2018 elections, has spent the final weeks of 2017 feuding with them over their votes on the federal tax overhaul bill.

«Governor Cuomo spent his time and money creating a fake party instead of fighting for the State Senate and congressional candidates of the party he is supposedly a member of,» said Bill Lipton, the state director of the Working Families Party, a group of labor unions and liberal activists.

The New York People's Convention, a group funded heavily by Bill Samuels, a New York City businessman and promoter over the years of everything from improving how congressional and legislative district lines are drawn to term limits, has raised — and spent — $ 251,000 on a Proposal 1 yes effort.

Green groups are praising New York's Congressional delegation for their efforts to preserve funding for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2018 spending bill.

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House appropriators kicked off the Congressional appropriations cycle for FY 2018, advancing the first spending bill (out of twelve) for the year: Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.

Two years ago, the Obama administration and congressional Republicans struck a deal on overall spending levels that helped ease passage of spending bills for 2014 and 2015.

The new report was prompted by a congressional directive to NIH to study scientific literacy that was written into a spending bill setting out its 2015 budget.

The 4 % increase for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Alexandria, Virginia, in the 2018 omnibus spending bill hammered out by congressional leaders this week may be modest next to what its peer science agencies received.

Congressional leaders have not yet released the report language that accompanies the 2009 - page omnibus spending bill.

A massive fiscal 2018 federal spending bill unveiled by congressional leaders Wednesday night includes a provision urging the heads of EPA, the Energy Department and the Agriculture Department to adopt policies that «reflect the carbon - neutrality of forest bioenergy and recognize biomass as a renewable energy source.»

These are only the first steps in the lengthy congressional process to get approval for FY2013 spending, and the two bills are quite different, but they are steps nonetheless.

February 28, 2011 • Congressional leaders have until the weekend to find middle ground on spending bills and avoid the blowback of a government shutdown.

Washington — Not willing to risk a Presidential veto of a huge catchall spending bill and seeking to make good on a political vow to pass their own appropriations bill for the second straight year, key congressional leaders pushed through a weary 98th Congress, a record $ 17.6 billion in fiscal 1985 Education Department funding last week — not as part of the continuing resolution but in the $ 101 - billion bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.

Congressional Quarterly reported yesterday that House Democratic leaders will accept the Senate's plan to pass a stripped - down supplemental spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and seek another way to funnel $ 10 billion in edu - aid to the states.

In order to grease the skids and encourage broader support, the bill expanded the total amount of federal money spent on education, and it created new programs devoted to pet causes of various congressional groups.

A political impasse that shut down most federal operations for four days ended last week with a new stopgap spending bill and a promise to protect education spending as the White House and congressional leaders negotiate a seven - year balanced - budget plan.

As congressional debate bogged down over an array of spending and philosophical issues late last week, it appeared that the House and the Senate would not vote on their education spending bills until this week.

Congressional insiders report that the portion of the bill addressing education funding is the most contentious because it also includes funding for the new health care law; some suggest bipartisan consensus on this part of the bill won't be reached, requiring yet another temporary spending measure while negotiations continue.

And last week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its official score of the bill.Initial reports on the CBO score stated that the bill will decrease spending to federal student aid by $ 14.6 billion over the next 10 years.

But congressional Republicans this week attached a rider to the $ 1.1 trillion spending bill that would block the government from contributing the three billion dollars Obama had pledged to the Green Climate Fund in November.

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Congressional COMPETES Bill Starves Some Programs to Feed Others The House Science Committee put forward controversial legislation that would reprioritize federal spending on science and research.

If congressional Republicans really care about business, economic growth, wasteful government spending, and an America That Leads, as they profess, they will soundly reject the Hoeven - Manchin bill or amendment.

Tobacco lobbyists and their congressional allies are working to insert these harmful provisions in the spending bill Congress must pass by April 28 to keep the government open:

It was robbed of a stand - alone floor vote because Congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this un-vetted, unrelated data bill to the $ 1.3 trillion government spending bill.

Youth Services Insider analyzed available figures from the Congressional Research Service on state, county and private home visiting spending (all three can count toward the state match in the House bill).

Congress Passes Omnibus $ 1.3 Trillion Spending Bill Funding Government Through September; Two - Week Congressional Recess Begins

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