Sentences with phrase «federal spending bill for»

The House last week approved a long - awaited federal spending bill for fiscal 2007 that would provide a modest increase for the Department of Education, including extra money for Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

She voted against the federal spending bill for the Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency and related agencies, and split with the party on 22 related amendments.

Not exact matches

It's back to the drawing board for the eight - year - old effort to create an SBA women's procurement program, as the most recent federal spending bill scraps controversial, restrictive Bush - era regulations.

The bill also calls for the lifting of limits on federal spending, which would allow the repeating increases in defense and domestic budgets.

That bill would extend current federal spending into December, allowing time for further negotiations over key GOP priorities — including the Mexican border wall demanded by Trump.

Meanwhile, bond king Bill Gross found silliness on the trading floor, Larry Summers did not become the next Federal Reserve chairman, and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron called for spending cuts in a gold - laden throne room — making a bigger fool of himself than millions of tweeters ever could.

The politics of the coming November midterm elections will consume the Capitol for much of the rest of 2018, as lawmakers debate a farm bill, possible new disclosures for social media companies and federal spending beyond Sept. 30.

In just one month since the Parkland shooting, the gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for gun purchases.

The 2018 bill boosts federal health spending by about $ 10 billion, including increases for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and specifically dedicated opioid crisis funding...

To fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown, while also specially carving out funding for the Department of Homeland Security, * this week Congress is on track to pass the so - called «CRomnibus» — a combination of a continuing resolution and an omnibus spending bill.

The bill, a priority for the president and first lady Michelle Obama, would boost spending on child nutrition $ 4.5 billion over 10 years and raise federal reimbursements for school lunches more than the inflation rate for the first time since 1973.

Gov. David Paterson's fourth emergency spending bill will include no state cash for capital projects, but will allow federal and local spending.

The omnibus spending bill now on the congressional launch pad is a something - for - everyone grab bag that contains a surprising amount of federal money for New York priorities, including rural broadband, the fight against opioidaddiction, and highway, rail and airport improvements.

Federal programs that aid Upstate New York will be preserved as part of a bipartisan deal in Congress for a $ 1 trillion spending bill, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

Despite efforts by Trump to block federal funding for Gateway, a new train link under the Hudson River, the project could receive as much as $ 540 million from a spending bill Congress hammered out — much less than the $ 900 million that previously had been intended, but not the shutout the president had been pushing.

She voted against legislation to delay implementation of federal ozone standards, and she voted in support of a spending bill for energy and water programs.

«Joining 18 other states as finalists for more federal aid is good news, but it won't overshadow the facts that taxes and spending will be going up even more, school property tax bills are being prepared without a state budget in place, and the budget will soon be the latest in history.»

Colleen Deacon, Eric Kingson and Steve Williams said they support a bill in Congress banning gun sales to suspected terrorists, an increase in the federal minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, increased spending on roads and bridges, a ban on fracking for natural gas, and replacing the elevated portion of Interstate 81 in Syracuse with a boulevard.

Fighting for more federal homeland security money, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio spent the day in Washington, D.C. making his case to Congress.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE While Mayor Bill de Blasio is proposing to increase spending by roughly $ 2 billion in the city fiscal year that begins on July 1, cuts in federal and state support for the city may force the mayor to curtail those plans.

The amount of money the federal government has kicked in for infrastructure projects has gone down over the years and a long - term infrastructure spending bill has yet to be passed by Congress and the state is not helping much either.

Short - Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations — Vote Passed (235 - 193, 5 Not Voting) The House passed the joint resolution that would provide funding for federal government operations and services at current levels through Dec. 22, 2017, at an annualized rate of $ 1.23 trillion for federal departments and agencies covered by the 12 unfinished fiscal 2018 spending bills.

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut says the $ 1.1 trillion spending bill that made its way through Congress could pave the way for the passage of federal gun control legislation.

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.

As the state and federal governments continue to pursue policies that threaten the city's fiscal future, Mayor Bill de Blasio again said he is investing in making New York City the «fairest big city in America» as he proposed spending $ 88.67 billion for the next city fiscal year, which begins July 1.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled an $ 89.06 billion executive budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year on Thursday, decrying new spending that the city must undertake to meet shortfalls and unfunded mandates imposed by the new state budget approved last month, and cautioning of federal actions that could affect the city's fiscal future.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday proposed an $ 84.9 billion operating budget for New York City that included new spending to provide legal services to immigrants — a nod to changing federal policy under President Trump.

Mayor Bill de Blasio released his $ 82.2 billion Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2017 on Tuesday, increasing spending by about $ 100 million from his proposed preliminary budget while expressing concern about a possible economic slowdown and the effects of consistent underinvestment by the state and federal governments.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday called for Washington to approve a $ 10 billion Medicaid waiver to help save struggling Brooklyn hospitals, even as federal officials said that's not how the money should be spent.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday revealed an $ 82.1 billion preliminary spending plan, including federal and state aid for the coming fiscal year — a $ 3.5 billion overall spending increase from the $ 78.5 billion budget plan approved by the City Council last June for the current fiscal year.

Schumer this weekend suggested that city officials should not provide protection if they weren't paid, but an agreement for an omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through fall should make the city whole.

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«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets policy for NSF and two other federal research agencies, and the House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016 spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.

That's because the number «is buried in a report that accompanies a $ 51 billion spending bill for 2016 covering numerous federal agencies that was approved Wednesday by the appropriations committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.»

Trump's draconian budget request — which suggested drastic cuts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others — was rejected by Congress, and a spending bill that increases funding for science at many federal agencies was signed into law.

The bill does allocate $ 1 million for a «contract» between the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products and the National Academy of Medicine to conduct a more thorough study of the health effects of e-cigarettes and suggest how federal funds should be spent on future e-cigarette research.

We hope that Congress will continue on a bipartisan path toward a final omnibus bill for fiscal year 2018 and urge members to raise the budget caps for discretionary spending, which is how the majority of federal research and development is funded,» said Holt in a statement.

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.

(A Senate panel approved a bill that would erase this year's sequester cut and give the agency $ 30.95 billion in 2014, but the House of Representatives, which has not released its version of the bill, has proposed cuts to the overall federal spending that could translate into another $ 5 billion cut for NIH, according to an analysis by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.)

Congress has averted a government shutdown on 4 March by approving a temporary spending bill today that funds federal agencies for another 2 weeks.

Last night lawmakers from both the House of Representatives and the Senate issued a final spending bill for NASA and several other federal agencies that «accommodates cost growth» for the $ 8.7 billion telescope.

The spending bill, expected to be attached to a continuing resolution for all federal agencies that must pass by Friday to avoid a government shutdown, funds NASA at $ 17.8 billion for FY 2012.

NIST's final spending bill includes $ 20 million for its own contribution to the network and up to $ 5 million to coordinate the effort across the federal government.

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 Senate passed a nearly $ 32 billion spending bill for education and other social programs last week, but Democrats and the Clinton administration were outraged by a provision in the bill that would transform most federal education funding into block grants.

The 203 - to - 206 vote was on final passage of a second continuing resolution, a temporary spending bill to provide funds for federal agencies not covered under regular appropriations measures.

The good news is that though Title IV had been targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, congress rebuffed the administration by giving a big boost to the block grants in the federal omnibus spending bill signed into law March 23.

The Senate had approved $ 90 million — compared with $ 100 million in the 1985 spending bill — for what was once intended to be the federal government's flagship program to improve mathematics and science education.

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.

Washington — Heading off numerous Republican amendments to freeze or cut federal spending for child - nutrition programs, the House Education and Labor Committee last week approved a bill that would increase the programs» $ 5.3 - billion budget by $ 119 million in fiscal 1986.