Sentences with phrase «debate over the spending»

But the debate over spending and entitlement programs that Romney seemed to be seeking has not unfolded the way Republicans wanted.

In the statement, he said that he thought that lawmakers were «inside the ten yard line» on finding solutions to immigration and other issues involved in the debate over the spending bill.

That trade - off, however, didn't make its way into the debate over the spending bill.

The debate over spending and influence and climate legislation, as cast in the report and ensuing critiques, is academically valuable, perhaps, but nearly meaningless in assessing the roots of climate action or inaction for one reason: It presumes that both sides in the fight had an equivalent task in either gaining or avoiding 60 Senate votes.

Based on the complexity of activities and spending that I carefully detail and discuss throughout the chapter, Joe Romm in several blog posts has taken this complexity and created a misleading, horse - race style debate over spending in specific areas like lobbying or advertising.

Not exact matches

Similar criticisms were levied at the U.S. government in the 1940s, when the debate was over whether billions should be spent on building a national interstate highway system.

When the leaders of the world's major economies convene in Toronto on June 26, their schedule will be laden with big issues, from ending stimulus spending to the European debt crisis to the debate over a global bank tax.

It aggressively ratcheted up spending to spread its influence in Washington and to have a louder say in the debates over drug prices.

The week kicked off with some debate over just how much Apple is doing to safeguard kids who are spending too much time on their iPhones and not enough time communicating with others.

In 1998, Barnes famously gave up a top job at PepsiCo to spend more time with her family, in the process sparking a national debate over the notion that women can't have it all.

Apple, for its part, spent $ 1.4 million in the first quarter of 2017 as the iPhone giant looks to shape the upcoming debate over tax reform.

We can spend all night debating on what is happening over there to the suffering going on here.

Global science, by the way, is not unified and spends most of its time bickering back on forth over every issue, not to advance debate, but to justify academic publishing requirements.

According to The Sun, Man Utd have been told that they will have to spend in excess of # 100m if they wish to prise him away from the Italian capital, which will undoubtedly raise debate over whether or not he's worth that level of investment.

Now that there are so many cool and unique playgrounds designed for kids of all ages and abilities, I guarantee that you will spend less time arguing over tablets and more time debating which park to visit next.

J.D.S., 23, and her unborn child spent the summer at the center of a statewide scandal over treatment of the developmentally disabled and a national debate on fetal rights.

The Ryan budget, which has proved once again to be a lighting rod in the national debate over taxes and spending, passed in the House of Representatives along largely partisan lines 228 to 191.

Given the debate over the federal deficit, government spending on social services, such as Medicare and Social Security is under increased scrutiny, with many Republicans mounting an all - out assault.

Over the past few months, I've spent many evenings watching Goldsmith and Khan debate each other at hustings around the capital.

Even more fraught is the debate over procurement reform in the state Legislature, where lawmakers had sought to restore power to the comptroller's office when it comes to oversight of economic development spending.

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

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.

Common Cause: Pro-Fracking Interests Spent Millions on Politics A new Common Cause / NY report released Monday highlights the role that money plays in the policy debate over allowing hydraulic fracturing in New York.

The State Senate began debate over the $ 152 billion spending plan late Tuesday night after lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo resolved a stalemate that forced them to blow past a Saturday budget deadline.

A debate over a massive education, labor and ethics bill lasted for more than six hours in the chamber on Tuesday and Assembly Republicans called a conference on a capital projects spending bill at 10 minutes to midnight.

We need to raise the debate on how we reform our political system to support long - term thinking over political and spending cycles.

While political watchers spent last week looking ahead to primaries in Ohio and Texas, the candidates engaged in a serious debate — over a photo of Barack Obama wearing Somali clothing.

The debate over public financing has begun in the state Senate, with the introduction of new legislation by Senator Eric Adams, which would establish a public financing program, create an independent enforcement counsel in the State Board of Elections, lower contribution limits and improve disclosure of independent political spending.

The case restarts amid heated debate over education spending and mandates in campaigns for governor and other state offices this year.

In that op / ed, Cuomo aide Paul Francis called the debate over education spending «a sham» in Albany.

In a lengthy blog post, Tony Blair's former communications chief reveals that he has spent recent weeks agonising over whether to enter the debate.

NYSUT and Cuomo have been at odds on a variety of issues ranging from the tax cap, to the state's education spending formula and the ongoing debate over the state's teacher performance evaluation law.

Cuomo says he's tired of hearing the same «debate» over education that's occurred for the last twenty years, which he says focuses too much on what he calls «high priced» professional education lobbyists and the amount of money to be spent on schools.

Carney warned that debates over government spending for 2011 every two weeks «will be bad for the economy because of the uncertainty it creates.»

The board spent 3 1/2 hours over two meetings in May and June listening to a debate of the project's merits, reviewing the request and voting on several variances.

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.

We made a point of trying to get away from the campaign to cover the choice: the 6 and 10 did a series on big issues, from airports to defence spending to social care, that weren't getting much play in the campaign; Newsnight interrogated the future of the NHS; Andrew Neil's series of Daily Politics debates analysed policy, department by department over two weeks; and, online, from Reality Check to constituency profiles, we scrutinised the detail.

The governor's proposal kicks off a two - month debate over how the state will spend its money; the current state budget expires March 31.

Like 1199, a relative quieting of the public debate over the healthcare sections of budgets under Cuomo has led to a decrease in GNYHA's spending, but it still finished as the state's highest - spending lobby client in a recent bi-monthly reporting period.

He also submitted legislation to close what he said was an additional $ 620 million budget gap that has opened up over the weeks the Legislature has spent debating how to close the existing gap of more than $ 9 billion.

The contentiousness of the debate was on full display over the last two weeks, as a pro-charter school group filed its second lawsuit alleging a «crisis» of violence in the city's schools — after which leaders of the city's education and police departments spent consecutive days reassuring reporters that city schools are safer than ever.

But the debate over the amendment lived on thanks to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who spent the week attacking the amendment as a cheap way to buy votes for the overall measure — and an expensive burden on New York State.

This morning we spent an hour debating with Fixistas over our list of the 10 best Senate races of the past decade.

Over the years, there have been debates about the funding of the region and whether budgetary allocations are being spent judiciously.

By Paul Snyder Campaigns for the state Legislature and the growing debate over transportation spending are likely to collide in the November elections.

As the editors write in this month's Scientific American, the ruling failed to define what «unreasonable» discrimination of Internet content is, leaving too much up for debate — «the only certainty it gives is of the tens of thousands of billable hours to be spent arguing over the meaning of «unreasonable» in federal court.»

The language in its pending 2018 spending bill — approved last night by the appropriations committee for the U.S. House of Representatives — could also rekindle a smoldering debate over whether Congress should set parameters for how much NSF invests in specific disciplines.

«There is a longstanding debate over the impact of government spending, and people who are very smart disagree — one camp holds that a dollar of spending leads to more than a dollar in GDP growth, while the other camp holds that spending results in less than a dollar in GDP growth,» says Nora Traum, an associate professor of economics at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the work.

The Republicans nays were likely a rejection of boosting overall authorized spending levels for NASA; the Democratic nays probably reflected their unhappiness with the dearth of debate over the bill's substance.