Sentences with phrase «debate over cutting»

The spending cuts were mostly political theater — the debate over cutting either $ 40 or $ 60 billion out of a $ 3.5 trillion budget isn't exactly a substantive one.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.

* At a White House press conference, a visibly angry President Obama defended the tax - cut deal he hammered out with congressional Republicans, calling the debate over the cuts «the public option debate all over again.»

Not exact matches

CNN: My Take: It's time for evangelicals to speak up about guns Pastor and author Daniel Darling urges evangelicals to participate in the debate over access to guns, and to acknowledge that there is «no clear - cut Christian position on gun control.»

The current debate over immigration policy cuts across the conventional political and ideological divides.

At the Pope's insistence, the bishops did a reset, plunging the Church into renewed debate over divorce and homosexuality and cutting short the conversation that the Pope had earlier invited over famine, persecution and want.

That's quite a lot of debate over one small cut.

The left's debate over how to respond to the coalition's spending cuts is focusing on Ed Miliband's leadership today.

If the Tories do rear their «true» head & claim that the cuts will (& should) be permanent, then the debate will be between amputation vs cure in how to deal with the deficit, breaking what patina of consensus still remains between political parties over the necessity of the welfare state.

At Left Foot Forward, the Fabian Society's Sunder Katwala offers a very interesting analysis of the debate over the government's deficit reduction and spending cuts programme.

The heated debate over how government cuts have affected local councils, and campaigns to save local public services such as libraries has demonstrated how people are deeply engaged with what happens in their communities.

She's fought on behalf of students and recent graduates suffering from crippling student loan debt, and to change the debate in D.C. from a discussion over whether to cut Social Security into one about how we can grow it.»

Despite the win on Thursday, there were signs of major hurdles on the horizon as the debate over how to fund Trump's proposed $ 1.5 trillion in tax cuts has yet to be settled.

Debate continued this week over methods of cutting the public sector debt.

Debate on the floor included criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, over $ 90 million dollars in cuts to providers of services for the developmentally disabled.

We're seeing cuts in mental health services, in drug programs, the debate over Golden Hill; all these would not be issues if the state was paying its fair share.

A massive pension fund run by Wall Street fuels the debate in Congress over cuts to retiree benefits.

After a raucous first general election debate where an unruly audience saw an attendee removed from the theater and the candidates shouted over each other, often cutting each other off and going over their time limits, what will happen at this final debate is anyone's guess.

The economic debate over whether cutting the deficit faster or slower will help the recovery more doesn't have much to do with politics.

Cuomo's second tax commission is weighing a proposal with more than $ 1 billion in mostly property tax cuts, but debate over former Gov. George Pataki's plan to slash the personal - income tax on the highest earners has helped delay the release of the group's report.

Divisions are forming in the upcoming debate over tax cuts that's likely to dominate the new legislative session.

In an Observer article, the former Labour leader wrote: «In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment.»

So is the vitriol and venom that characterized previous debates over Medicaid reform, which often meant Medicaid cuts.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes clashed with former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani over the Bush tax cuts after last night's debate.

Owen Smith was doubled over with laughter following a power cut which plunged the debate into temporary darkness (Ian Forsyth / Getty Images)

It's a man vs boys The Daily Mirror - Bob Roberts Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg «savaged» David Cameron in the first Prime Ministerial debate last night over the Tory leader's plans for # 6bn in spending cuts this year.

Meanwhile, the spending cut knife and partisan debate hover over Medicare and Medicaid, two programs critical to many of the poor.

In a debate on Time Warner Cable television, both said they'd vote to repeal the new federal health care law, call for the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki over revelations of mismanagement, support Fort Drum against defense department cuts, and join Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer in calling for more money to combat the heroin epidemic.

In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment, extend injustice and flatlining incomes, sustain or worsen private debt, and deepen the balance - of - payments, productivity, housing and poverty deficits.

There, negotiations are expected to include debates over whether nations like China and Saudi Arabia, which have enjoyed a special status in prior negotiations, should shoulder more of the burden to cut their emissions, which the IPCC report shows are rising steadily.

From the alleged debate over the film's final cut between star Edward Norton and the studio, to the recent announcement that Norton would be snubbed a writing credit for his polish of Zak Penn's script, the movie was gearing up to be a publicity - fueled disaster.

WASHINGTON — While most of the debate in Congress over President Clinton's deficit - reduction proposal focused on the plan's controversial tax increases and spending cuts, the omnibus package also contained a number of provisions affecting children, students, and schools.

On a national level, the cheating story cuts to the heart of a major education policy debate over accountability.

Over the last six months, school funding has been an almost constant feature in policy debate, from the proposed introduction of a National Funding Formula to the longer running cuts and freezes schools are facing to their budgets.

magazine, does little to cut through the rhetoric or clear up the numerous misrepresentations that plague the debate over free - roaming cats.

«Cat Fight,» which appears in the latest issue of Conservation magazine, does little to cut through the rhetoric or clear up the numerous misrepresentations that plague the debate over free - roaming cats.

Now given the special edition make - over, this Director's Cut features a new branching ending as well as numerous bonuses guaranteed to relight the match on this debate.

In an extensive program of over 100 exhibitions, performances, screenings and debates, more than 50 of Amsterdam's cutting edge contemporary art venues showcase the newest developments in contemporary art, giving visitors the opportunity to be the first to see tomorrow's artistic talent unfold.

But worldwide emissions have continued to swell, driven mainly by blistering economic growth and coal burning in Asia; debate over a new climate treaty has stalled; lawmakers of both parties have not embraced legislation aimed at cutting emissions; and polls show the public still largely disengaged.

The owl first entered the spotlight 15 years ago, in fierce debate over clear - cutting of ancient Pacific forests.

The Lib - Lab agreement around 5 % cuts has turned the political debate into an unedifying spat over how we meet that target, a debate which the CCA has broken open today, calling 5 % «not credible».

From Transition Heathrow's squatter activism and subsequent police raid, to Transition activists engaging in debate over swinging government spending cuts, it's certainly true to say that to draw a fundamental line between community - building and politics is both impossible, and probably counter productive.

The «debate», if you want to call it that — though I suppose it was more civil than, say, the «debate» over health care reform — focused around two things: How much was to be cut from the federal budget, and which «riders» would the GOP be allowed to attach to it?

The debate over legal outsourcing is going mainstream, with a special report in yesterday's Toronto Star (print copy only; Legal temps fill holes, cut costs).