Sentences with phrase «federal budget impasse»

As a result, the district's Office of State and Federal Grants has been instructed to budget accordingly, until the federal budget impasse is resolved.

The sun gleamed down on the closed Washington Monument as the federal budget impasse continued in Washington on Jan. 4, 1996.

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WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party today said the solution to the current impasse over sequestration and federal budget cuts is deep cuts in the military budget.

ALBANY — Five days past the deadline to enact the state budget, Gov. Andrew Cuomo blamed the federal government for the impasse.

North Country New York Democratic Congressman Bill Owens, in a conference call with reporters hours after the federal government shut down over a budget impasse, said Congress has forgotten the importance of civilian workers.

A political impasse that shut down most federal operations for four days ended last week with a new stopgap spending bill and a promise to protect education spending as the White House and congressional leaders negotiate a seven - year balanced - budget plan.

The Labor Day weekend is over but there's no sign that lawmakers are ready to deal on the budget impasse now two month old — but of more immediate concern to schools, there's evidence that $ 1.2 billion in federal jobs money might get caught up in the spending debate.

Recent issues of Capitol Connection have reported on the potentially devastating effects of sequestration, the across - the - board cuts to education and other federal programs set in motion by the congressional budget impasse last fall.

«Unlike the debt ceiling standoff, with its competing claims of trillions in cuts, the FAA impasse involves only a tiny slice of the federal budget.