Sentences with phrase «election year spending»

It will include fiscal rules, including rules governing election year spending, provisions for transparency and sanctions, including sanctions on the Executive itself,» he said.

It will include fiscal rules (including rules governing election year spending), provisions for transparency and sanctions (including sanctions on the Executive when it breaches the Appropriation Act as was done brazenly in 2012).

Not exact matches

In the 2016 election cycle, the average winning Senate candidate had spent $ 10.4 million through October 19 of that year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

Lilly's political spending was $ 548,100 for 2017, up 12 percent from 2015, the previous off - election year, the data show.

An election - year boost in education spending helped push the Beehive State to the top last year.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

But even without outside money, U.S. presidential election spending has dwarfed Canadian spending by increasing margins over the past 12 years.

Now, this is an election year and spending for science research, among other things, is on the Tea Party chopping block.

The network's spending plans going forward mark an increase from the amount spent in the two years before the 2016 election, which was roughly $ 250 million.

The Conservatives are playing up low - cost initiatives such as action on cross-border price differences because they've restricted spending to balance the books by 2015, expected to be an election year, and don't have the cash right now for major tax cuts or lavish program spending.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

And other big potential Republican priorities for 2018 — including potential bills to boost infrastructure spending and cut back on entitlement programs — are now in limbo as every last vote comes under the election - year spotlight.

During the election campaign, Mr. Trudeau didn't shy away from acknowledging that his party's plans to invest in infrastructure would result in several years of deficit spending.

It notes that authority to spend money on both missions will come through supplementary appropriations before Parliament, but given that an election is expected this fall it will likely be a year, or more, before those figures are tabled.

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

The government's 2015 election platform originally proposed three years of deficit spending followed by a balanced budget in 2019 - 20.

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas has unleashed a spending spree in Tuesday's budget ahead of this year's state election with a record $ 13.7 b infrastructure spend.

That said, a new leaf seems to have been turned this year with hedge funds returning to positive flows in the first quarter of 2017.1 Renewed interest has been spurred by the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, which some industry experts are predicting should bring meaningful tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending that we think could prove a boon to hedge strategies.

Spending on goods was slow in the first quarter of the year, despite rising consumer confidence since President Trump's election.

The Victorian government has unleashed a record $ 13.7 billion infrastructure spending spree in Tuesday's budget ahead of this year's state election, mostly across road, rail, hospitals and schools to meet the state's booming population.

Presidents or Congresses supposedly stabilize policies in the year leading up to the election, or cut taxes, or raise spending, or make promises, or wave a wand.

While I spent a considerable amount of time knocking on doors for candidates in Edmonton, I was also working with a group of MLAs, lawyers and former PC cabinet ministers on what would have been the plan to transition the Liberals into government if the party had won that election ten years ago today.

Two months before the presidential election of 2000, the PNAC unipolarists issued a position paper titled «Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century» that spelled out the particulars of a global empire strategy: repudiate the ABM treaty, build a global missile defense system, increase defense spending by $ 20 billion per year to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, and reinvent the U.S. military to meet expanded obligations throughout the world.

Within a few years of his election, Peter Hebblethwaite was writing, de haut en bas, that he «would like to think that John Paul continues to learn from his stay in the West... and that he might spend as much time trying to understand the rest of us as we have spent trying to understand him».

I had arrived at Harvard on a fellowship in philosophy in 1960, just before John F. Kennedy's election, and I have to admit I was about as green and innocent as a lad of twenty - six can be, having spent the prior twelve years in the seminaries of the Holy Cross Fathers.

This is really the first election year that I've spent a lot of time listening to the speeches and debates... This is really the first election year that I've...

The campaigns for and against a constitutional convention may be only every 20 years, but spending by supporters and foes this year is on par with expenditures in a hotly contested election.

Cameron's commitment to spending more on health than the rate of inflation every year of the next election will still leave the NHS under significant cost pressure as it tries to deal with the soaring demands of an elderly society.

«There is no good reason why our local governments should be asked to spend an extra $ 50 million to hold three primary elections in one year,» Silver said in a statement.

Lawmakers no matter the party have been loathe to make broad - based spending cuts, especially in an election year.

The legislative leaders quietly introduced a campaign finance bill last night that is designed to strengthen enforcement at the state Board of Elections and also address the US Supreme Court's January decision that overturned a 20 - year - old ruling barring corporations from spending freely to support or oppose candidates.

The last Labour government was able to plan its 1997 manifesto on the basis of rising departmental spending in the first years after the election.

The suit, which appears below, makes reference to the Citizens United case decided by the US Supreme Court earlier this year that enabled corporations and labor unions to spend much more freely to influence elections.

The coalition will have to make spending plans for the 2015/16 financial year, going beyond the 2015 general election.

Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul spent nearly eight years in the Erie County Clerk's Office, four running it, before winning a special Congressional Election in 2011.

Grisanti, who has voluntarily filed six financial reports with the state Board of Elections since September even though he didn't run for re-election this year, started out with $ 72,642, spent $ 35,056 and now has $ 284,273 on hand.

In our analysis of 100 years of fiscal squeezes in the UK, we found that hard revenue or spending squeezes were associated with a 77 to 86 per cent likelihood of the incumbent parties in government losing at the next general election, compared with the 38 to 42 per cent likelihood of losing the next election that was associated with soft revenue and spending squeezes.

After years of review in the case of former Niagara Falls Sen. George Maziarz, and no charges brought, a question remains: What happened to hundreds of thousands of dollars of questionable spending flagged by the state Board of Elections for prosecutors to review?

In the years since the 2012 election cycle, a camp of forward - thinking digital strategists has emphasized the importance of digital and data in the world of political spending.

At the comprehensive spending review in 2010 Osborne was predicting 2.9 % growth for this year and hoping for a barrage of tax cuts in time for the general election.

The annual talks for a roughly $ 160 billion spending plan have a political importance this year ahead of gubernatorial and legislative elections in the fall.

The $ 20 billion spending package, with no tax increases in an election year, received final legislative approval less than one hour before a midnight deadline.

By contrast, the state Democratic Committee spent $ 13.54 million this year on behalf of the campaigns of Cuomo and his running mate, Kathy Hochul, 86.49 percent of its total election - related spending.

The Campaign Finance Institute estimates the state would need to spend $ 140 million dollars over a four year election cycle.

Instead, it's spent its years in opposition generally opposing the coalition's cuts as a matter of course, making its commitment to fiscal rectitude just as the election approaches feel like a late conversion indeed.

As the head of his conference's campaign efforts for the past seven years, Gianaris might have an advantage in a potential crowded primary field, as he's spent the past several election cycles getting to know top Democrats in every corner of the state.

Totals for Assembly races have not been compiled for the past couple of election cycles, but they had previously come out to be about $ 40 million every two years, meaning that somewhere around $ 200 million can be expected to be spent on legislative races every four years.