Sentences with phrase «government budget debate»

The survey, done from Jan. 21 to Feb. 13, gave some support to both sides in the U.S. government budget debate.

Not exact matches

Their lobbying effort will begin once MPs start debating the government's budget implementation bill, which in its current form would apply the taxes to all but a small group of cannabis - based drugs.

The current impasse between the Parliamentary Budget Officer and the Government is the result of a clash between the Government's business model, based on a lack of transparency, and accountability; non-evidenced based decision - making; and hostility to public debate and discussion; and, a Parliamentary Budget Officer business model with the exact opposite principles.

Most observers would like that the government to acknowledge the contributions of the Parliamentary Budget Office to policy discussion and debate.

It is a budget that demonstrates the government's inability, or unwillingness, to engage in public discussion and debate over ideas and policy.

The legislative session produced ejections, MLA suspensions and other intrigue but amidst the budget debates and political drama the New Democratic Party government pursued a fairly ambitious legislative agenda.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has made balanced budgets a key plank in the campaign debate and his government's April budget left little fiscal room for other parties to promise significant new spending.

That being said, I think it unlikely our Lord would participate in a debate about a government's budget.

Here's Senate Finance Chairman Carl Kruger opening debate on the 11th budget extender and trying to pin the blame for a possible government shutdown (which we now know isn't going to happen) on the GOP.

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During yesterday's Budget debate, senior Tory backbencher Nicholas Soames (left) called for Lord Young of Graffham (right) to be reinstated as the Government's adviser on the operation of health and safety laws:

During Thursday's deliberations on the Budget debate, George Eustice, who won his home seat of Camborne and Redruth from the Lib Dems, gave his maiden speech and called on the Government to harness a culture of enterprise:

Washington (CNN)- The battle over union rights in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana has dramatically shifted the budget debate from Capitol Hill to the states, almost overshadowing the threat of a government shutdown in Washington next week.

The good - government think tank is wading into a contentious debate over the 2009 law passed as part of the super-late state budget.

While not a very lofty body, I have participated in student government deliberative bodies (with $ 300K of budget authority, some quasi-judicial authority, control over a fair amount of real estate and a role in institutional governance committees) with about thirty elected representatives that operated with approval voting, feminist process and an affirmative stack for recognizing people in debate.

I urge you to get involved and to be there when your local government's budget is being debated.»

Representatives from other government watchdog organizations — including New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG), Reinvent Albany, Common Cause, and Citizens Budget Commission — told Gotham Gazette that they have not taken a position on the ballot question, but that the issue is being debated vigorously internally.

May I, however, protest that convention has been discarded by the Government's somewhat offensive decision to stick a topical debate in ahead of the second day of the Budget debate, which is traditionally opened by the shadow Chancellor?

May I suggest that it would be much better to provide a whole week of Back - Bench business, so that all the matters that I am sure Government Members would like to debate, such as why the European Commission is demanding an increase of 7 % in its budget, and all the issues that Opposition Members would like to discuss, such as the double - dip recession, can be put not only to Ministers, but to the Prime Minister, who will be avoiding Prime Minister's questions for another two weeks?

«Rather than debate this that has no basis in reality, we may just continue to beg this government to be very specific in the indication of the assumptions underlined in the budget.

The debate will give us all a chance to reflect on what the rest of the country thought about the Budget — which is: not a lot — and the fact that only three Labour Back Benchers have turned up to support the Government's final Budget suggests that the parliamentary Labour party does not think much of it either.

During resumed debate on the budget in the Commons, Cable was asked by Labour MP Phil Wilson what the government would do if the «massive gamble» for the country failed and derailed the recovery.

«THOMPSON Park replaced the House of Commons as Labour leadership hopeful Ed Miliband challenged Burnley Lib - Dem MP Gordon Birtwistle to vote against the coalition Government's budget during an impromptu debate.

But the government's plans for NWO, a semiautonomous agency with a $ 625 million annual budget, have become the target of a growing barrage of criticism and the subject of a lively debate on KNAW's website.

These are the government's own figures but selectively left out by them in the debate and seemingly the budget deliberations.

As well as the debate over the overall budget for schools, the government will have to decide whether to press ahead with a new formula for allocating funding to individual schools.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (pictured right), said: «Schools can not yet put in place budget plans for the coming years, so we hope the government, and the new Secretary of State, will continue to work with school leaders to ensure this delay is the final one in a debate that has raged for so many years.

Government pensions are backed by the power to raise taxes, which will lead to some heated debates as more and more Boomers retire and strain governmenGovernment pensions are backed by the power to raise taxes, which will lead to some heated debates as more and more Boomers retire and strain governmentgovernment budgets.

If it were part of the government budget, they would reflect a democratic process in which Canadians, through their elected representatives, debated about how much would be collected, from whom, how the money would be distributed, and for what purposes.

Efforts to limit or eliminate the mortgage interest deduction, do away with the government - sponsored secondary mortgage market, or require 20 percent down for an affordable mortgage are just a few of the ways the financial crisis and today's federal budget debate are upending the generations - old consensus in Washington about the central place of home ownership in the United States.

This week at the legislature — Colorado State Budget Over the past two weeks, legislators have been debating the «long bill,» otherwise known as the budget, to fund state government operaBudget Over the past two weeks, legislators have been debating the «long bill,» otherwise known as the budget, to fund state government operabudget, to fund state government operations.