Sentences with phrase «federal budget talks»

The Trudeau government's 2017 federal budget talks a big game about innovation policy, but it misunderstands how firms actually implement change

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The French ideas about turning the euro zone into a virtual federal state, with its own finance minister, budget, and executive and legislative authorities will probably be among the key talking points in a reform program that is supposed to lead to a tightly integrated economic and political union.

The federal government talked up this idea leading up to the release of its 2013 — 14 budget.

Ryan's advocacy for cutting taxes and trimming the deficit — he is the architect of the GOP's proposed federal budget — married with his willingness to talk about fiscal belt - tightening in moral terms and his low - key social conservatism speak to a political moment in which the economic concerns of the Tea Party and the social focus of the Christian right have merged into a relatively cohesive anti-Obama movement.

He heard government leaders talk about balancing the budget by cutting back on the food stamp program, even while they rescued a struggling aircraft corporation with massive federal aid.

DiNapoli said more information is needed to address concerns raised during the budget talks, such as potential cuts to federal aid, a premise that drove the governor to successfully receive power over making changes to the budget after it is approved.

In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require school districts within cities with a population of more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by school building.

The federal judge in the upcoming corruption trial of Skelos and his son, Adam, said she expects to admit evidence that the two strategized about using questions about the finances of Cuomo's girlfriend to weaken him in budget talks.

President Obama will huddle with top congressional Democrats in the Senate and House to talk about the federal budget, including Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Steve Israel.

Again accusing Republicans in Washington of «having declared war on New York,» Cuomo, as part of the upcoming state budget talks, wants to find a way to revamp New York's tax code to limit the impact of the federal law.

After major issues slipped off the negotiating table during budget talks and federal prosecutors charged Dean Skelos, the second legislative leader in six months, Cuomo's approval ratings sunk to a record low.

«The last time I talked to the county exec, it sounded like everything was going through and he had given me his word that he was going to find funding for... the remainder of the project,» Adam Skelos said, adding that Mangano told him that if federal funds didn't work out, he would look in the Department of Public Works budget.

Revenues from the ongoing Wall Street rally will be a «bright spot» heading into potentially difficult state budget talks complicated by the federal tax overhaul, but New York government leaders shouldn't count on stock market gains to cover a deficit projected to be in the billions of dollars, the state's top fiscal officer said Tuesday.

President Barack Obama met with Senate leaders yesterday to jumpstart stalled budget talks, but do voters nationwide agree with how the president is handling the federal budget deficit?

The signs also raised eyebrows as talks between the state and federal officials were underway when in February of last year the DOT revealed during a joint legislative budget hearing in Albany that the signs cost $ 8.1 million when the agency had previously said they cost $ 1.76 million.

After talking about the 2017 budget, federal housing settlement, and more, County Executive Astorino turned to the topic presumed to be responsible for the overflow crowd.

On Monday, in a NY1 interview, Cuomo amended that somewhat, saying possible federal spending cuts have presented the state budget talks with «a new problem.»

Universities, colleges, and their students in Canada were not anticipating much in the way of increased funding for postsecondary education initiatives because much of the talk leading up to this year's federal budget focused on health care..

Of course it couldn't be at a worse time, with the federal government talking about reduced budgets and austerity.

The bleak forecasts are fueling talk of pink slips and program cuts, especially in many urban and poor rural school systems where federal money pays for nearly 20 percent of school budgets.

February 5, 2014 FRAC Testimony in Support of SB128 - Education Compensatory Education Grants Federal Community Eligibility Provision Senate Committee on Budget and Taxatio Community Eligibility Provision talking points

On the second day of the conference the principals did just that — they met and talked with federal legislators about the ESEA Reauthorization and the federal education budget.

Q: During the debates about the Federal Budget deficit, there was a lot of talk about eliminating the mortgage interest deduction.

Now, as far as the «establishment» issue — here we are talking about things like the Department of Energy budget issues — as well as the general reluctance of those who are dependent on federal funding to challenge official government policy.

We're talking about federal budgets proposed elimination of the Legal Services Corporation.

During the Paris talks, West Coast Environmental Law released a proposal for such an approach — A Carbon Budget for Canada: A collaborative approach for federal and provincial leadership on climate change — recommending that Canada's provincial and federal governments:

In growing opposition to Federal Budget health measures, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health leaders met in Canberra today for crisis talks about the implications of last week's Federal Budget and have called for proposed GP and other co-payments to be scrapped, saying they risk widening the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health.

In the Federal Budget, the PM has failed to «walk the talk» of his Closing the Gap speech; instead, the Budget is widely seen as extremely disappointing for the health of Aboriginal and Torr... Read more

In the Federal Budget, the PM has failed to «walk the talk» of his Closing the Gap speech; instead, the Budget is widely seen as extremely disappointing for the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

With all the talk in Washington about «defunding Planned Parenthood,» you might think there's a specific, Planned Parenthood line item in the federal budget that Congress and the president can just zero out.

Assistant Health and Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt talks to Croakey about the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan, Section 18C, and the upcoming Federal Budget.

Alice Walker was helping the couple sell their house and buy another one — and she started talking with them about proposals in Washington, D.C., to reduce the value of the mortgage interest deduction to help close the federal government's budget gap.

The breakfast featured eggs benedict... oh... and the chief economist from the NAB talking about the Federal Budget.