Sentences with phrase «in spending bills»

The Silver plan also eliminates the governor's existing legal authority to insert policy language in spending bills, giving up a crucial power of the governor while offering little in return.

Included in that spending bill was more than $ 16 billion for economic development, roads, parks and other work.

That's not incorrect — but it doesn't address the basic premise that the law, as structured, can't be blocked simply by deleting lines in a spending bill.

Tobacco lobbyists and their congressional allies are working to insert these harmful provisions in the spending bill Congress must pass by April 28 to keep the government open:

Opioid deaths increased slightly in Erie County last year, part of a continuing nationwide trend that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer hopes to stem by insisting on more federal funding to combat the epidemic in a spending bill that must be finalized by the end of next week.

But lawmakers from both parties fought heavily to get the money in the spending bill, particularly Republicans facing tough re-election campaigns this fall.

Also at 10 a.m., Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, Dick Dadey of Citizens Union, Tim Hoefer of the Empire Center and others unveil Truth in Spending bill to bring transparency to how the state allocates pork barrel spending, Assembly Chamber, state Capitol, Albany.

(Including transfers to other agencies and other adjustments in the spending bill funding NIH in 2013, the total reduction is $ 1.71 billion or 5.5 % compared to 2012.)

Here's what's happening: The fate of the Obama Administration's push to take unhealthy food out of the school cafeteria depends on how Congress votes in a spending bill before Congress.

As Rice and Fitzpatrick explained, «Unfortunately, there is nothing illegal about donating $ 100,000 to a politician's reelection committee, then receiving millions in the form of a helpful tax break in a spending bill.»

Democrats have the ability to demand changes in the spending bills because Republicans do not have enough Senate votes to block a Democratic filibuster in that chamber.

Congress must appropriate the actual amount in spending bills this year.

Meanwhile, in the absence of a revenue bill, the $ 134 billion in spending bills finalized by the Legislature two weeks ago aren't fully paid for.

One of the issues that led to the shutdown was Democrats insistence that Republicans include a path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of immigrant youth brought to the country as children in the spending bill.

Controversy arose over similar language in spending bills announced in 2017, as well.

The language in the spending bill does indicate that forest biomass for energy should only be considered carbon neutral if it «does not cause conversion of forests to non-forest use.»

They have vowed to attach language approving the pipeline in a spending bill or other legislation later in the year that the president would find difficult to reject.

The House has already approved the president's original request for the decennial census, and Senate appropriators have reiterated their hold - the - line philosophy in their spending bill.

Some of President Bush's top education priorities — especially his plans for improving the nation's high schools — are rebuffed in a spending bill making its way through the Republican - controlled House of Representatives.

Sometimes Congress follows those suggested levels in spending bills, sometimes not.

There's good news for veterinarians in the spending bill approved Friday by Congress and the president.

The addition of the new rules in the spending bill came after 53 members of Congress issued a letter to the House Appropriations Committee, urging them to cut taxpayer money for canine medical research under the new spending bill.

This week, we're talking about the surprises hidden in the spending bill; one thing that the president's new hires have in common; and a court hearing on climate that we didn't witness.

As the nation's leading women's health care provider and advocate, Planned Parenthood strongly opposes several policy riders and budget provisions included in the spending bill released by the House Republican Appropriations Committee late last night.

WASHINGTON — Opioid deaths increased slightly in Erie County last year, part of a continuing nationwide trend that Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer hopes to stem by insisting on more federal funding to combat the epidemic in a spending bill that must be finalized by the end of next week.

President Bush earlier this year proposed zeroing out funding for the labs in his fiscal 2006 budget request, but House and Senate committees have restored the money in their spending bills.

«He should have the ability to look at that type of spending and that's why I think the Truth in Spending bill will help him do that type of audit,» said Tedisco.

The federal funds included in the spending bill will go towards building a state - of - the - art NCO training academy on base.

Last week, AAMFT made progress on the goal of adding MFTs as Medicare - eligible providers with the inclusion of an AAMFT - supported provision in a spending bill that supports efforts to expand the behavioral health workforce for the Medicare population.

Amy Comstock Rick, CEO of the Parkinson's Action Network, says her group isn't too concerned about language in the spending bill that states that NCATS can not fund clinical trials that go beyond a certain stage.

An amendment specifying a cut and shift would likely have been ruled out of order, because such fine details are not spelled out in the spending bill.

The one new program in NCATS — the Cures Acceleration Network — received only $ 10 million in the spending bill, far less than advocates such as Rick had hoped for.

And here's Grist's Chris Mims: «And unlike federal subsidies for renewables, which are constantly haggled over in spending bills, a lot of these are sneaky.