Sentences with phrase «federal spending authority»

There's remarkably little worry about the impact on the total economy of slicing $ 38 billion out of federal spending authority.

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The commission recommended several reforms including reforming civilian and military retirement programs, reducing agricultural program spending, eliminating in - school subsidies in federal student loan programs, and giving the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation the authority to increase premiums.

Moen noted Sessions» action doesn't change federal law, which includes a congressional provision barring authorities from spending federal money to prosecute medical marijuana operations that abide by state laws.

A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's attempt to withhold funding from «sanctuary cities» that do not cooperate with U.S. immigration officials, saying the president has no authority to attach new conditions to federal spending.

For instance, this year's benchmark for the federal budget is $ 42 but oil now goes for over $ 70 per barrel and instead of paying all the revenues to the Federation Account, the FG still operates an Excess Crude Oil Account contrary to the judgment of the Supreme Court and they spend such funds without recourse to appropriate authorities,» he said.

Federal authorities in May gave approval for a company to truck spent nuclear fuel over the Peace -LSB-...]

The resolution also preempts a number of plans in Cuomo's own budget, on taxes, free college courses for prison inmates, and spending authority over federal health care funds.

President Donald Trump has vowed to cut off all funding to «sanctuary cities» like New York that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities, while GOP leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have long sought to slash federal spending across the board.

And the Senate passed a $ 1.3 trillion spending package Friday that would encourage state and federal authorities to provide more information to the national gun background check system.

In the past few weeks, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed an executive order imposing a state - controlled monitor for the authority's finances, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development decreed that the city seek permission to spend any federal funds on the authority.

The state's economic development authority is tripling the amount of money it's spending to deal with a federal probe of the Cuomo administration's Buffalo Billion, documents show.

Alicia Glen, deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said the authority spent $ 580 million in capital funds annually over the past four years when accounting for federal funds as well.

Cuomo's aides said he needs the authority to hold back spending without legislative consent in case the federal government drastically reduces the aid due to New York.

Maintaining that the bailout is different from the regular federal allocation that can not be monitored by the allocating authority, it accused Fayose of playing with facts and the law to avoid scrutiny on how he spent the special funds specifically approved to pay backlog of salaries, pensions and other entitlements to former political office holders.

The measure would curb unlimited campaign spending by giving Congress the authority to regulate raising and spending limits for federal elections.

According to Eckhardt Viehl of Germany's Radiation Protection Authority, which will run the dump for the federal environment ministry, more than # 230 million has been spent on the project so far.

OMB's role in the budget process does not end when Congress passes and the President signs the annual appropriations bills (or, in more recent years, the continuing resolutions to provide funding for a limited period of time after the fiscal year until the appropriations bills are agreed upon).195 OMB is intimately involved in budget execution — the way federal agencies carry out their work under the budgetary authority they have been granted.196 OMB affects budget execution through two different levers: the formal specification lever, through which it «apportions» and otherwise defines how agencies spend the funds Congress has appropriated, and the informal monitoring lever, through which it oversees agencies» implementation of their programs.

The association contends that under the federal 1995 District of Columbia School Reform Act (SRA), which was passed under Congress's constitutional authority over the district, charter schools are entitled to equal per - pupil spending.

According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»

Arne Duncan, the federal secretary of education, urged state and local authorities to avoid short - sighted decisions as they cut school budgets, and said laying off teachers based solely on seniority was «a wrong way to cut spending.»

There was a short - term Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) spending plan (called an Emergency Support Function, or ESF plan), a school facilities master plan, and a plan from the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) for infrastructure construction.

Introduced by education committee chair Rep. John Kline (R - MN), the Student Success Act (H.R. 5) would significantly reduce the role of the federal government in education by moving spending and accountability decisions to state and local authorities.

(1) SPENDING AND BORROWING AUTHORITY. - Spending and borrowing authority for a fiscal year to enter into Federal credit instruments shall be promptly apportioned to the Secretary on a fiscal - year basisSPENDING AND BORROWING AUTHORITY. - Spending and borrowing authority for a fiscal year to enter into Federal credit instruments shall be promptly apportioned to the Secretary on a fiscal - year basisSpending and borrowing authority for a fiscal year to enter into Federal credit instruments shall be promptly apportioned to the Secretary on a fiscal - year basis.»

(B) FEES. - The Secretary may collect and spend fees, contingent on authority being provided in appropriations Acts, at a level that is sufficient to cover» (1) the costs of services of expert firms retained pursuant to subsection (d); and» (2) all or a portion of the costs to the Federal Government of servicing the Federal credit instruments.»

While Schmoke currently works as a high - ranking director at a community college in Georgia, he spent several years working for DeVry University, a college that has been repeatedly accused of fraud by both federal and state authorities.»

Just when you thought the excessive executive compensation was bad, it appears that the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) CEO Bill Johnson, already the highest paid federal employee in the entire country taking home over $ 6.5 in total compensation in 2017, spent the last few years on a spending spree buying new corporate jets, airplanes and a luxury helicopter.

They pointed to a measure included in a $ 1.3 trillion spending package that Congress passed early Friday — one that would incentivize state and federal authorities to report more data to the country's gun background check system.

Congress passed a $ 1.3 trillion spending package on Friday that include a bill that incentivizes state and federal authorities to report more data to the country's gun background check system.