Sentences with phrase «language 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.

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.

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But in December 2014, Citigroup was able to slip language into the must - pass spending bill that effectively repealed this critical Dodd - Frank provision and President Obama signed the bill into law.

It is interesting to hear Wenger state in the last few days that he hoped Cesc will be with us for a good 2 or 3 seasons, just when it coincided with Barcelona declaring that they are making drastic cuts to their wage bill on and off the field.They literally have no cash to spend and though asset rich, the effects of the Spanish economy are taking affect.I think Cesc has accepted that and will show full commitment to Arsenal.He is pivotal to any success we may achieve.His whole body language has changed, he looks generally much more content, and he can put to the back of his mind, at least for the time being any proposed move, and that for us is a good thing.Barca are disguising their troubles by saying yet again they have made no official approach to our club, purely to save face.

By Chef Ann Cooper & Chef Beth CollinsWhy are potatoes and the proposed meal patterns for school breakfast and lunch making headlines in Colorado?In August Senator Udall and Susan Collins (R - ME) sent a letter to the Senate agricultural appropriators urging them to add language to the FY2012 spending bill that states: None of the... Read more

As I reported here back in March, House lawmakers were able to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on two important new school food requirements: an increase in fruit served at breakfast and the implementation of the widely lauded «Smart Snacks in School» rules.

Earlier this year, the SNA successfully lobbied to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill, advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on either requirement, if implementing the requirement would result in increased cost.

This huge outpouring of grassroots support bolstered efforts in Congress — led by Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro (D - CT) and Chellie Pingree (D - ME)-- to get language into the 2015 omnibus spending bill keeping Chinese - processed chicken out of school food and other child nutrition programs.

The Democratic governor confirmed Tuesday that several of his policy proposals would be dropped from the spending plan, which must be agreed to by March 31 and in which Cuomo has a higher degree of leverage over lawmakers by inserting language they can not change into appropriation bills.

While the bill may include language about where advertising money can be spent, if the agency chooses to advertise the program, nothing in the budget bill requires the Cuomo administration to spend money on Start - Up NY advertising.

The language in its pending 2018 spending bill — approved last night by the appropriations committee for the U.S. House of Representatives — could also rekindle a smoldering debate over whether Congress should set parameters for how much NSF invests in specific disciplines.

«Despite having nearly a year to address this matter, the [ARS] has provided a wholly inadequate public response to the allegations of animal mistreatment at MARC and it has been delinquent in providing necessary information and updates to the Committees,» legislators wrote in report language that accompanies the omnibus spending bill.

That same month, Congress included language authored by Roybal - Allard in its 2016 spending bill that strongly encourages NIH to perform an ethical review of its nonhuman primate research.

But the funds will go to construction projects, she said, despite the fact that the language in the final bill didn't specify just how the Science Office should spend the money.

The language has appeared in similar forms in previous spending bills the last few years, due to pressure from lawmakers in forest - heavy states.

The rejection letters, sent last month to six Chinese nationals, had cited language that Wolf had inserted in a 2011 spending bill as the reason for their exclusion.

The final version in the 2012 spending bill retains the prohibitory language, although it gives the White House an opportunity to engage in some collaborations if it can «certify» that they «pose no risk... of transferring technology, data, or information with national security or economic security implications to China or a Chinese - owned company.»

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.

Then, in 2011, Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson inserted language into a committee report attached to a spending bill that delayed the release of that assessment.

Sen. David Vitter will attach language to an upcoming spending bill in the U.S. Congress that would prohibit the federal government from discriminating against states who don't adopt the Common Core academic standards.

Buried on page 166 of the Appropriations Committee report accompanying the $ 105 - billion spending bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education was a statement of support for the flexibility that Mr. Bennett seeks in the bilingual - education program — which now mandates use of the transitional method, in which non-English-speaking students receive some instruction in their native language.

To prevent similar disruption next year, lawmakers included in the education spending bill, SB 70, language aimed at requiring the CDE to provide the data support.

TOPEKA — After the Kansas House spent more than three hours Tuesday debating a bill that would have repealed the Common Core curriculum standards for English language arts and math in the state, it failed to receive first - round approval by a vote of 44 - 78.

But the Alliance expressed some misgivings about the authorization level (which is Congress - speak for language in the bill that suggests a particular spending levels).

Waxman was particularly dismayed that the EPA was running an ad on Spanish - language radio stations across the nation to inform the public about the president's environmental initiatives, using federal spending to cast the bill in a favorable light on public radio.

They included language in the $ 1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill directing the DoD to explain within 60 days how it plans to acquire cloud services in light of the parameters of its cloud bidding process.