Sentences with phrase «discretionary programs»

Those gains come despite the president's plan to freeze domestic discretionary programs in hopes of reducing a $ 1.4 trillion deficit.

While the reductions in R&D may not be as severe as in some other discretionary programs, they would still be substantial.

So most bank discretionary programs and large mutual funds end up being able to invest in only the largest of Canadian companies.

President Bush used his first address to Congress in late February to tout his recipe for cutting taxes, paying down the national debt, and overhauling the country's major entitlement programs — all while increasing spending for discretionary programs such as housing.

The agreement on a final continuing resolution (CR) for 2011 does take a $ 38.5 billion cut out of the $ 1.089 trillion spent in 2010 on discretionary programs across the federal government.

Following adoption of the budget resolution, Congress considers the annual appropriations bills that are needed to fund discretionary programs in the coming fiscal year and legislation to enact changes to mandatory spending or revenue levels as specified in the budget resolution.

The recently agreed upon two - year cap deal includes updates to some of the President's FY 2019 Budget requests for domestic discretionary programs.

Charlie Dayton, National Liaison for CCASN, noted that many discretionary programs in California are at risk of being defunded due to a lack of evidence to demonstrate program effectiveness.

Funds from the Public Lands Highways Discretionary program supplement their existing infrastructure programs.

The means - tested discretionary programs examined are low - income housing programs, the low - income home energy assistance program, and the WIC program.

In September 1990, Bush and Congressional Democrats announced a compromise to cut funding for mandatory and discretionary programs while also raising revenue; the compromise additionally included a «pay as you go» provision that required that new programs be paid for at the time of implementation.

The Fund is a set of domestic discretionary programs which includes most (but not all) of nondefense R&D.

Legislators voted largely along party lines in approving a package of 12 appropriations bills that would provide about $ 1.23 trillion in 2018 for so - called discretionary programs.

Speaking at the Center for American Progress, Orszag said he's asked each federal agency to submit a list of «their bottom 5 % performing discretionary programs» as well as «how they would reduce their budgets by 5 %.»

Under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP - 21) Act, FTA's Tribal Transit Program roughly doubled the amount of available funding from amounts awarded in prior years, but changed from an entirely discretionary program to a mostly formula - based one.

Since it usually takes at least $ 100,000 and often more to be able to invest with these types of advisers, most average Canadian investors are stuck with mutual funds or over-priced bank - run discretionary programs that look just like the TSX with high fees.

The FY2018 federal budget proposal to Congress contains draconian cuts for clean energy and climate among the cuts for other important discretionary programs.

Just over two weeks later, on March 16, the President has released a budget blueprint that, with its proposed deep cuts to non-defense discretionary programs, undermines this very goal, as well as the goal of an American future that is both competitive and creative, with opportunities to help all children and families succeed.

As a result of these revenues and a significantly improved economic outlook into the next century, the President and Congress expect to be able to spend more money on discretionary programs than they did a few years ago while keeping the budget balanced.

The funds, which come from the FHWA's Public Lands Highways Discretionary program, will reconstruct the road to an observatory in Hawaii critical to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

If signed into law, the budget act would roll back most sequestration cuts for the next two years, reinstating 87 percent of total spending on domestic discretionary programs.

[3] What distinguishes a mandatory program from a discretionary program is that after Congress enacts a law creating a mandatory program, the program is permitted to spend funds until the program expires based on a provision in law, or until a subsequent law either terminates the program or reauthorizes it.

ALCF and OLCF offer year - round Director's Discretionary programs for researchers to request small (around 1 million hours) allocations of computer time for porting, tuning, and scaling in preparation for an INCITE proposal.

Every year, the Space Telescope Science Institute allocates over 3000 orbits of Hubble time to approved Guest Observer, Snapshot, and Director's Discretionary programs.

The Appropriations Committees in both the House and Senate are responsible for determining the precise funding levels for all discretionary programs.

Moreover, Congress this fall will consider several measures that could further pinch education and other discretionary programs.

«For fiscal year 2013, the non-defense cuts would occur through across - the - board, proportional reductions in the new funding provided for each discretionary program in the appropriations bills for fiscal year 2013, which Congress should already have enacted before the January 2013 sequestration order is issued.»

The measure allots $ 33.11 billion for discretionary programs — a hefty 12.6 percent increase over last year's $ 29.4 billion — and includes spending on new initiatives on hiring teachers, teaching reading, and promoting school safety.

Overall, 39 discretionary programs would be cut, eliminated, or «streamlined.»

The banks tend to offer expensive closet index funds in their discretionary programs in many cases, where you're pretty much guaranteed to lag the indices by 2 %.

Harper is desperate to turn the treaty right to education into a discretionary program and service that is subject to Parliament's budgetary whims.

Existing investments number just four — Head Start; CCDBG, both the mandatory and discretionary programs; and IDEA Part B — and current funding is insufficient to reach a majority of eligible children.