Sentences with phrase «earlier spending bills»

The U.S. Senate defeated an effort to set aside $ 600 million in emergency funds to address the nationwide opioid epidemic, with top Republicans arguing that the extra money wasn't needed because lawmakers had addressed the issue in an earlier spending bill.

Not exact matches

Clinton intervened in the Zika virus crisis in early August, joining many Republican and Democratic officials from Florida in demanding that Congress cut short its summer recess and pass the $ 1.1 billion spending bill to help combat the spread of the dreaded disease in the continental United States.

Trump tweeted shortly before the briefing that a 1 p.m. «news conference» will address the omnibus spending bill that he threatened to veto earlier in the day.

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

Earlier on Tuesday, there appeared to be two possible outcomes: The Senate would either sign off on the $ 659.2 billion increase in defense spending and add in a parallel increase in domestic spending, or lawmakers would strip the measure of all extra defense spending and send yet another «simple» stopgap bill back to the House.

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Earlier this week I wrote a big post summarizing our amazing trip to Pittsburgh to spend some time with our friends Bill and Hayley from The Food Lovers.

The U.S. Senate approved on a spending bill worth $ 1.3 trillion early Friday morning.

The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, which included limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line and delaying limits on sodium and delaying a requirement to boost whole grains.

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 legislation is a spending bill that in part takes aim at standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year to make school lunches healthier amid an obesity epidemic among young people.

But after weeks of precarious negotiations, the $ 1.3 trillion spending bill the president eventually signed Friday doesn't explicitly mention the $ 30 billion Gateway project and reverses some earlier attempts to steer funding its way.

The current year's budget was technically late, having passed in the early hours of April 1, though the broad - based aspects of the budget had been agreed to, and no emergency spending bills were needed to pass.

The $ 100 billion investment plan hinted at by Cuomo's Secretary Bill Mulrow earlier this week was unveiled in full, though it's now more clear that the lofty number is not made up entirely of state spending.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council reached an early budget agreement on Friday night that is chock full of new spending befitting an election - year budget.

Bonacic said there's talk of approving a one - month - long temporary spending bill, to last until early May.

PLATTSBURGH Congress must pass a spending bill in early - February to avoid another government shutdown more

Some conservatives had earlier expressed concern about the sheer size of the Sandy bill — the Senate - passed version exceeded $ 60 billion, at a time when lawmakers were trying to find a way to deal with spending cuts as part of a fiscal - crisis package.

PLATTSBURGH Congress must pass a spending bill in early - February to avoid another government shutdown

After an earlier veto threat, President Donald Trump signed a spending bill on March 23 that provides $ 70 billion for federal education initiatives — a 6 percent increase over the previous year.

The agreement, reached earlier today, ended a marathon battle over a bill that raises taxes, cuts spending and helps close the state's $ 42 billion deficit.

For Paterson, a tumultuous week in Albany ended as he and several staffers wrapped up the final 2,000 or so line - item vetoes of $ 500 million in legislative spending contained in budget bills passed earlier this week, plus $ 193 million in member - item grants.

Those who want more information about things such as reapportionment or pork barrel spending are out of luck,» Valesky asserted in a memo accompanying his earlier bill.

That difference became clear last week after the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 2016 spending bill that does not call for the steep cuts to climate and social science programs approved a week earlier by the House of Representatives.

Unfortunately, when a Senate spending panel took up the bill earlier this week, it embraced the president's proposal — a 1.1 % increase — instead of the level the House approved, which would give NSF 3.2 % more money to spend than it had the previous year.

And that concern found its way into a report accompanying a 2018 spending bill approved by the full committee earlier this month.

Separate spending bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate would spare both agencies from the severe cuts forecast next year for most federal agencies in the wake of last summer's budget agreement between Congress and the White House and a budget resolution approved earlier this month by the House.

With Congress preparing to debate climate legislation, environmentalists and their allies are spending millions on ad campaigns aimed at building public support for a cap - and - trade bill and scoring early political points.

Bill Trinen spent some time during yesterday's Nintendo Direct pointing out some of the games coming in early 2016 from Nintendo's partner developers.

Bill Trinen spent some time during yesterday's Nintendo Direct pointing out some of the games coming in early 2016 from Nintendo's...

Lawmakers greeted the bill's passage with relief after spending four furious weeks, often into early - morning hours, crafting the reconciliation bill and the 13 regular spending bills for the fiscal year that began last month.

As part of his campaign plan for lifting children out of poverty, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley recently proposed spending more on child care and early - childhood education, guaranteeing health care for all children, and creating a new program to recruit teachers for urban and rural districts.

But proposals in three states that had the potential to restrict spending on schools - the idea known as a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights - were rejected, early returns showed.

From the Taxpayer Bill of Rights spending limit of the early 1990s to the innovative electioneering that turned the red state blue in 2008, conservatives and liberals alike have used the Centennial State as a laboratory for new ideas to be tested and later replicated across the country.

And when lawmakers in the 113th Congress take office in early January, they also will confront a yawning shortfall in the Pell Grant program, which helps low - income students attend college; grapple with a planned rise in student - loan interest rates; and pass a spending bill financing the federal government for the remainder of the 2013 fiscal year.

Votes on the measure are expected this week as early as Thursday afternoon, as failure to pass a spending bill by midnight Friday, March 23 would lead to a government shutdown.

With the continuing resolution authorizing federal spending at current 2016 fiscal year spending levels set to expire on April 28, 2017, finalizing the FY 2017 spending bill will be a key priority early in the 115th Congress.

Lawmakers passed the school funding bill earlier this month to meet a Kansas Supreme Court order that found current school spending insufficient and unfair to poorer school districts.

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Even if they did spend time in New York, their work was not especially visible and seems much less pertinent to the show's focus than that of Judy Rifka, Bill Jensen or Gary Stephan, whose efforts, like that of Harriet Korman (who is in the show), were among the most closely watched developments of the early»70s.

Jenkins said the money needed might not be as much as the peak of spending under the stimulus bill and earlier programs, which was as high as $ 44 billion in 2009 — «but I think it needs to be quite a bit higher than the downward slope we see going forward.»

Tucked away on one of the 2,232 pages of the omnibus spending bill Congress sent to President Donald Trump's desk early Friday morning is a provision to ban federal funding for a group called the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.

In an opinion piece posted by The New American earlier today, Dr. Veronique de Rugy said this about the omnibus spending bill:

«The final omnibus spending bill is a huge win for America's babies, with an historic investment in child care funding for working families, as well as first - time funding for infant and early childhood mental health.

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 povearly 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 povEarly Head Start, a crucial program that can change the course for infants and toddlers living in poverty.

Congress passed a spending bill that included the reauthorization of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program.