Sentences with phrase «in omnibus bills»

He is not going to hide legislative tsunamis in omnibus bills.

This is a government that is fond of putting everything but the kitchen sink in omnibus bills, limiting debate on them, and then passing them without a comma changed.

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.

Funke, too, has made a big point of supporting the other provisions in the omnibus bill, including pay equity for women in the workplace.

The bridge re-naming, however, in the omnibus bill passed by the Democratic - led Assembly early this morning and expected to be considered today by the Republican - controlled Senate removes the name Tappan Zee entirely.

Instead, language in the omnibus bill allows the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate to remain at last year's levels, while Geosciences would be permitted to grow in FY 2016.

Washington — The Senate education subcommittee plans to include reauthorization of the federal bilingual - education program in an omnibus bill that will be drafted this fall.

Some items get buried in an omnibus bill, which makes our work even more exacting.

Again, Ontario is rushing changes through in an omnibus bill.

The 2006 changes were in an omnibus bill, which became law while the courts were deciding an important case.

Furthermore, amendments to change that Act's requirements, contained in an omnibus bill rammed through the Houses of Parliament, are unconstitutional.

And while finding changes to mental stress entitlement «a great step forward for workers», fellow NDP MPP Catherin Fife (Kitchener - Waterloo) questioned why workers» compensation issues were included in an omnibus bill: «The WSIB and its entire infrastructure and its entire organization for many years now has been very focused on reducing its liability and not so focused on ensuring that the workers who are injured in the workplace receive the attention that they need.»

This clarification is needed more now that this government saw fit in its omnibus Bill C - 38 to eliminate the regional Employment Insurance boards of referees and umpires and to replace them with an Ottawa - based tribunal.

Just this month, Family TEAM and other AAMFT members responded to an AAMFT advocacy action alert by sending over 1,200 messages to their Members of Congress urging the inclusion of LMFTs as Medicare providers in the omnibus bill.

Not exact matches

Despite the changes on the medical front, the federal Tories have not only indicated their intention to keep marijuana in the Criminal Code, but have also introduced mandatory minimum sentences of six months on small - time grow - ops — six or more plants — as part of the omnibus crime bill, Bill C -bill, Bill C -Bill C - 10.

Witness the new rules for takeovers by «state - owned enterprises» — companies owned by a foreign government — recently unveiled in the budget omnibus bill.

Instead of the $ 25 billion Trump sought for the border wall, Congress has set aside just $ 1.6 billion in its omnibus spending bill.

The letter from Reed, of Rhode Island, and Durbin, of Illinois, comes on the heels of reports that Trump suggested the ideato «several advisors» after being disappointed by the amount of money allocated for border security in the $ 1.3 trillion omnibus bill.

Trump tweeted shortly before the briefing that a 1 p.m. «news conference» will address the omnibus spending bill that he threatened to veto earlier in the day.

The omnibus spending bill signed in March may be the last «major» policy enacted this year, experts said.

As the budget process illustrated last year, the federal government can use subsequent budget omnibus bills to include changes not mentioned in March budgets.

I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded.

The wait could be more than six months given the June omnibus budget bill is typically followed by a second bill in the fall.

As two former senior Finance Department officials, Peter Devries and Scott Clark, note, «we may not know what's actually in [the budget] until Flaherty tables the budget omnibus bills.»

This view was expressed in Bill C - 59, the recently passed Budget Omnibus Bill, which included legislation that would require future government's to maintain balanced budgets.

Republican leaders are figuring out whether to include the provisions in a must - pass omnibus spending bill before a March 23 deadline.

It's also worth recalling that, even though he failed to reform health care during his eight years in office, President Bill Clinton still managed to tackle tax reform with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.

In their scathing critique, former bureaucrats Scott Clark and Peter DeVries lambasted the Harper government for keeping internal budget records secret, picking a fight with the PBO, and introducing omnibus budget bills that are «a disgrace and an insult to Parliament and to Canadians.»

In the second Budget Omnibus Bill related to the 2012 Budget, the Government proposed to suspend the operations of the CEIFB until such time the EI Operating Account returns to balance.

Both budgets, however, were followed by massive Budget Omnibus Bills, which contained major changes to a large amount of legislation either vaguely referred to, or not referred to at all, in the budgets.

The first Omnibus bill engendered considerable discussion and hostility because, by including major policy changes in the Bill, it precluded substantive policy reviews by appropriate Parliamentary Committees, and indeed limited review by Parliament itsbill engendered considerable discussion and hostility because, by including major policy changes in the Bill, it precluded substantive policy reviews by appropriate Parliamentary Committees, and indeed limited review by Parliament itsBill, it precluded substantive policy reviews by appropriate Parliamentary Committees, and indeed limited review by Parliament itself.

In the second Budget Omnibus Bill related to the 2012 Budget, the Government proposes to suspend the operations of the Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board (CEIFB) until such time the Employment Insurance (EI) Operating Account returns to balance.

On Wednesday, the Minister of Finance tabled BILL C - 4, the second omnibus bill related to measures proposed in the March 2013 BudBILL C - 4, the second omnibus bill related to measures proposed in the March 2013 Budbill related to measures proposed in the March 2013 Budget.

A two part Omnibus Bill with over 1000 pages, which included legislative changes, only remotely referred to in the budget or not at all.

Minister Flaherty may deliver his budget March 21st but we may not know what is actually in it until he tables the budget omnibus bill (s).

The deal included a variety of specifics, including new funding for disaster relief and opioid treatment, but more specifically, it extended current spending levels until March 23 and trusted Congress to use the intervening time to pass appropriations bills (or one big omnibus deal) in accordance with the terms of the deal.

However, Congress began to pass budget - busting legislation back in 2015 by pursuing a permanent debt - financed doc fix followed by an even more costly tax extender (and omnibus appropriations) bill — at a total cost of over $ 100 billion in 2019.

Embedded in an omnibus transparency and economic modernisation bill (known colloquially as «Sapin 2»), this amendment institutes two separate binding votes on remuneration; a forward looking vote on policy, and a backward looking vote on variable and exceptional pay amounts.

It says so deep in the bowels of the omnibus bill, err, budget bill.

Business Groups Call for Passage of Miscellaneous Tariff Bill The U.S. Chamber of Commerce joined the National Association of Manufacturers and more than 200 other associations and businesses to send a letter to both chambers of Congress urging that the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill of 2018 (MTB) be included in the upcoming omnibus spending package.

Under Omnibus Bill C - 38, passed last year, the Harper government gets to overrule any NEB recommendation it doesn't like, whether negative or positive, in the «national interest.»

This effort resulted in two subsequent omnibus budget bills passed in 2012, which further undermined the public's confidence in the NEB and its pipeline review process.

In the 2007 Budget Omnibus Bill, the previous government amended the Financial Administration Act to eliminate the need to introduce a Borrowing Authority Act for any new borrowing requirements.

If it were to happen it would likely appear miraculously in another budget omnibus bill.

Since 2007, Budget Omnibus Bills have been used to include many legislative changes vaguely mentioned in the Budget, or for that matter, even mentioned in the Budget.

In total, 20 bills have become law through reconciliation, including the 1990 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, and portions of the Affordable Care Act.

Lawmakers passed Fix NICS Act, a bipartisan plan first introduced after the Sutherland Springs, Texas, shooting to strengthen the background check reporting system, in its omnibus spending bill.

In your election platform, you committed to ending the practice of using omnibus bill to reduce scrutiny of legislative measures.

They also folded a bill that strengthened the federal background check system into an omnibus spending bill passed in March.

A muddy, mucky, slippery slope... The combination of this news and the apparent intention of the harper government to allow the hand over of private personal information without a court order (see upcoming crime omnibus bill), lead one to wonder if we are in for this...