Sentences with phrase «government spending bills»

Lawmakers are trying to sneak provisions that threaten our air, water and wildlife into urgent government spending bills.

Separately, some conservative Republicans in Congress are hoping to thwart Obama's immigration action by tying it to a must - pass government spending bill, although the Republican leadership wants to avert a government shutdown over the issue.

There are three options with a government spending bill.

Congress hadn't even left town when political campaigns in some of the most competitive House and Senate races zeroed in on Friday's vote on a massive government spending bill.

The House will send a three - month stopgap government spending bill, debt - limit hike and aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to President Trump's desk on Friday.

ELIZABETHTOWN The omnibus government spending bill passed by Congress and signed by the president last month rejects deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and fully funds the agency at 2017 spending levels.

Biden did help secure a $ 264 - million cash infusion in the most recent government spending bill that will support cancer work at the National Cancer Institute, but the obstacles to attacking cancer effectively are more than just financial.

Teabag by teabag, the anti-environment faction in the House of Representatives has filled its federal government spending bill with amendments that will cripple protections for our water, air, natural resources, wildlife and public health.

It was robbed of a stand - alone floor vote because Congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this un-vetted, unrelated data bill to the $ 1.3 trillion government spending bill.

yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Medium: Lawmakers behind a new anti-privacy bill are trying to sneak it through Congress by attaching it to the must - pass government spending bill.

But a group of conservatives — led by GOP presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — has vowed to oppose any government spending bill that includes Planned Parenthood funds.

Not exact matches

The senators originally promised to include the measures in a year - end spending bill, but because Congress is only working to pass a short - term extension of federal government funding this week, Collins and Alexander say they will include the bills in an omnibus bill in January.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has spent the past three years quashing foreign investment, dedicated its summer to quibbling over cellphone bills and filled its speech from the throne with promises to fuss with credit card fees, retail prices and the nation's cable television packages.

The House of Representatives averted a government shutdown on Thursday, narrowly passing a $ 1.1 trillion spending bill despite strenuous Democratic objections to controversial financial provisions.

If passed by the Senate, the spending bill would fund all government agencies through September 2015, except for the Department of Homeland Security, which would get an extension only through Feb. 27.

Sept. 30 marks the final day of fiscal year 2015 and members of Congress are working to pass a bill that would allow U.S. federal agencies to continue spending money, thus avoiding the second federal government shutdown in two years.

And this March, as my colleague Alex Paladino mentioned, the spending bill President Trump signed to fund the government through the end of September originally had an internet sales tax attached to it, before it was pulled out at the last minute.

The bill's main objective — capping future government spending on healthcare at rates that won't gobble up a bigger and bigger share of national income, as well as leaving more resources for investment and entrepreneurship — is exactly what government needs to do.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The combined effects of President Trump's tax cuts and last month's budget - busting spending bill is sending the government's budget deficit toward the $ 1 trillion mark next year, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.

The White House is also likely to propose rolling backing some of the domestic spending increases in last month's government - wide funding bill.

Here's what services are «essential» and would continue if the government fails to pass a new spending bill by Friday, USA Today reports.

Among the dozens of protest causes were transportation costs; Native Indian rights; government spending on the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics; corruption in state and local governments; and a bill in the Brazilian congress that would authorize psychologists to try and «cure» homosexuals.

With the Senate voting on a provisional bill to fund the government for three more weeks, Sara Fagen, DDC Advocacy, and CNBC's John Harwood discuss the road ahead for getting a final spending bill and work on immigration.

When last December's government funding bill prevented the SEC from «finalizing» a rule regarding the disclosure of political contributions, Warren joined dozens of other Democratic lawmakers to remind White that the bill did not prevent the SEC from at least discussing or developing a rule for political spending disclosure to be finalized at a future time.

The government has also scrambled to pass a spending bill that will keep it in business and extend its ability to borrow beyond current limits.

Lawmakers hope to approve a must - pass spending bill on Thursday as the clock ticks toward potential government shutdown this weekend.

Trump also signed a short - term spending bill to fund the government, just hours before the midnight Friday deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown.

The short - term spending bill, while not nearly as large or as contentious as the tax reform, was nonetheless critical to avoiding what could have been a disastrous government shutdown over the holidays.

The provisions in the bill must directly affect the federal government's spending or revenue — it's a way to restrict what policies can pass under the special privileges of reconciliation, which allows a bill to advance with only 50 votes instead of the usual 60.

The tax bill and potentially hefty government spending could boost global growth, push up U.S. inflation expectations, increase

The grade was determined by the Board of Trade's Government Budget and Finance Committee, based on four key criteria — economic vision, spending management, tax competitiveness, and debt management — which were originally submitted to Finance Minister Bill Morneau in December 2015.

The Victorian government has unleashed a record $ 13.7 b infrastructure spending spree, which Treasurer Tim Pallas has billed as a «necessary and prudent» investment.

Faced with the possible third government shutdown, Congress has five days to approve a $ 1.2 trillion spending bill that would provide the greatest increase in years.

Trump signed a sweeping spending bill, reopening the federal government hours after it was shut down.

Now that the health care bill has been defeated, Senate leaders hope to move on to tax reform and to passing a spending bill in order to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September.

This spending bill will push off a government shutdown at least until December 15th, when a more permanent budget will need to be implemented.

An additional $ 5 billion to $ 8 billion for Harvey could be tucked into a catch - all spending bill Congress must pass in the coming weeks to fund the government past Sept. 30, according to the senior House Republican.

Not long thereafter, Citigroup slipped a repeal of the provision into the must - pass spending bill that would keep the government running through this September.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

The state will also argue that the bill involves affirmative state funding, and courts are often reluctant to put constitutional limits on government's ability to decide how to spend its money.

DREAMers, undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children, and their allies had been protesting and advocating for a bill to protect them before the government shut down pending a spending bill.

Congress is set to vote on a massive spending bill on Thursday night to avoid a government shutdown.

The first, and most ideal, is to just pass a big bipartisan spending bill — called the «omnibus» — that funds the government.

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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.

Now it's time for Congress to get back to work, and a top priority, when both chambers open for business again on the Hill next week, will be to address the current short - term spending bill that only funds the government through Dec. 11.

The Senate bill, like the measure that passed the U.S. House of Representatives this spring, shifts the cost of county Medicaid spending to the state government — a provision Gov. Andrew Cuomo has railed against.

State lawmakers do appear to be close to locking down the budget, with the state Assembly already approving one budget bill this evening — the public protection and general government portion of the spending plan.

President Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm of criticism of Democrats involved in tense negotiations on a spending bill to keep the government open, accusing them of trying to close national parks and jeopardize the safety of U.S. troops over demands to provide Americans with health care.

Government reform groups hope the bill would provide more transparency of opaque entities that have been used as pass - throughs for major economic development spending.