Sentences with phrase «national budgets as»

Leaders hope to give Brussels greater control over national budgets as part of the plans while Cameron has agreed to contribute # 1.3 billion to EU growth projects.

Abdullahi added that the National Assembly acted in the national interest to ensure equity and fairness is achieved in the distribution of projects and to ensure that all sections of the country have representation in the national budget as guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution.

Under this fourth consequence of the possible electoral arithmetic, policy for non-Scottish areas of the country would be partially formed by a party that has never received a single vote in those areas, is completely unaccountable to the electorate and has an electoral incentive in ensuring that another part of the country, Scotland, gets as large a slice of the national budget as possible.

The campaign has been endorsed by the Prime Minister's office, and was eventually reflected in the national budget as well.

Not exact matches

Congress should enact new spending caps along the lines of the Budget Control Act, which helped to shrink outlays as a share of national income from 2013 to 2017.

In response, Jay Dickey, an Arkansas Republican who described himself as the National Rifle Association's «point person in Congress,» submitted an amendment to strip the CDC budget of $ 2.6 million, the amount it spent on firearms research the previous year.

The National Conference of State Legislatures says nearly a dozen states still had not enacted budgets for the new fiscal year as of mid-June.

Despite its success, the National Institutes of Health has faced decreasing budgets since 2003, as its purchasing power decreased 30 %.

(May previously served as U.K. home secretary, when austerity budgets limited funding for national police.)

[154] In addition, Corzine has served as Co-Chair of the National Commission on Capital Budgeting under President Clinton, Chairman of the Treasury's Government Borrowing Committee and Chairman of the Public Securities Association.

The University of Missouri (MU) is losing about 1500 students and is facing a huge $ 32 million budget shortfall four months after it attracted national attention as the site of massive race - based campus protests.

This grade was awarded as a result of the budget's focus on incentives to promote small and medium - sized businesses, improve gender diversity in business, and bolster national infrastructure.

As part of the changes to the budgetary process in 1994, four private sector forecasting organizations [2] develop detailed fiscal projections on a National Accounts basis, based on the average of the private sector economic forecasts and the tax and spending policies in place at the time of the last budget for the next five years.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

Even national security could be threatened as a shrinking defense budget has made it more difficult for contractors to justify research spending.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

The country's fiscal spending, according to the Congressional Budget Office, may increase the national debt as a percent of GDP to a higher level than Italy in five years.

The budget committed to a new national strategy on gender - based violence, a special advisor on LGBTQ2 issues, as well as sorely needed gender and diversity training for federal judges.

The $ 6.2 billion cost to the federal government will not add to the budget deficit as it will be counted as a cash - for - asset transfer, in the same way as the national broadband network.

In the Budget, the government cites the high costs of drugs and the statistic that one in ten Canadians can not afford the prescription drugs they need as reasons why a National Pharmacare plan is needed.

As a member of the Government of Ghana Transition Team, Togbe led a three - man interim Ministry of Finance management team which prepared the draft national budget for 2009.

During his tenure as Minister of Finance, he erased Canada's deficit which was the worst of the G7, subsequently recording five consecutive budget surpluses while paying down the national debt and setting Canada's debt - to - GDP ratio on a steady downward track.

The DoD always tries to minimize the size of its budget by representing it as a declining percentage of the gross national product.

It is more than twice as large as the National Organization for Women, and its budget is thirty to fifty percent higher.

Treasurer Scott Morrison confirmed at his speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday that GST changes were off the table and revealed Australians should expect only «modest» income tax relief in this year's budget, describing budget repair as a «Test match, not a Twenty20 Big Bash».

They may not have the major marketing budgets that national chains have, but smaller full - service chains have found effective strategies to endear themselves to consumers in a big way.Sometimes it's as simple as pacing the progress, often it involves menu engineering, but always it demands agile and consistent execution.

As the only national value brand in the country, Bar - S believes shoppers shouldn't sacrifice great taste to stay on budget.

If you went back and added up all the budgets for the National CancerInstitute over the past three decades, we spent as much money on cancer as wespend in Iraq in nine months.»

And it seems as we travel around to state and national conferences to talk to our many friends in the recreation field, more and more we hear about budgets being cut, staff let go and recreation programs being forced to turn their programs over to volunteer based organizations simply because they have no other choice.

Roger Kennedy, who battled growing budget pressures and withstood congressional attempts to dismantle parts of the national park system, announced his resignation Monday as director of the National Park national park system, announced his resignation Monday as director of the National Park National Park Service.

But the reality of corruption in the executive branch of government doesn't mean that allegations of corruption in the National Assembly especially as they relate to budget padding and constituency projects, should be minimized or ignored.

«As the 2017 National Assembly budget does not appear to record all allowances received by senators, it's in the best interest of the Senate to now publish a line - by - line response to Sagay's allegations rather than simply providing a blanket denial.

As outrage continued to trail the reportedly missing 2016 Budget presented to the joint session of the National Assembly on Tuesday, December 22, 2015, by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidency, on Tuesday night, distanced itself from the missing bBudget presented to the joint session of the National Assembly on Tuesday, December 22, 2015, by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidency, on Tuesday night, distanced itself from the missing budgetbudget.

«Without including some level of details, Nigerians may see the published National Assembly budget as nothing more than window - dressing.

As an illustration, the Nigerian nation budgeted only N7billion for the capital and recurrent costs of maintaining the National Assembly in 1999 when we returned to civil rule.

The cost of the Crossrail project was largely seen as its most controversial aspect and fears that substantial government funding would place significant pressures on the transport budget led former transport secretary Alistair Darling to announce that the Crossrail project would not be funded entirely by the national taxpayer.

Now that the 2018 budget has been passed; CAMA is about to become a reality; and primary healthcare for hundreds of millions of Nigerians is finally within reach — as a medical doctor and a former banker, Saraki's vision as the President of the Senate and Chairman of the 8th National Assembly is coming alive before our very eyes as the people - centered priorities of the 8th Assembly are being actualized.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

Lawrence Levy, a political analyst and executive dean at the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, said that the program will likely be addressed as part of budget talks in Albany.

If we are not to tinker with the budget as submitted by the president, then there wouldn't have been the need to submit it to the National Assembly.

«It is source of great concern that in a country where an arm of Government is appropriated with less than one percent of the National Budget, it is difficult to refer to our judiciary as being truly independent.

If they pay off the same amount as Labour just one year earlier, the government would lose # 26bn - the equivalent of half the national education budget of the entire country.

The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika who made this known while briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting said that all the airports in the country will be concessioned as the Federal government will not be able to fund infrastructure from the national budget.

(b.) Composition of the Federal Government representation is as follows: Minister of Labour and Employment (Chairman), Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (member), Minister of Budget and Planning (member), Minister of Finance (member), Minister of Solid Minerals (member) and Chairman National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission (member).

«That this House notes that young people today grow up in an increasingly complex financial world requiring them to make difficult decisions for the future, often without the necessary level of financial literacy; believes that financial education will help address the national problem of irresponsible borrowing and personal insolvency and that teaching people about budgeting and personal finance will help equip the workforce with the necessary skills to succeed in business and drive forward economic growth; further believes that the country has a duty to equip its young people properly through education to make informed financial decisions; and calls on the Government to consider the provision of financial education as part of the current curriculum review.»

The Osborne plan (and the Coalition Agreement) called on Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers to achieve a cyclically - adjusted target to reduce government debt as a share of national income between 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16 and, politically and economically most significant, to do so by achieving a budget balance by the end of the Parliament.

Complaining about the lack of an immediate answer to the budget question, Mr Balls said: «It is about Treasury spending from the reserve, and it has a direct bearing on the national debt as well as on our national interests.

And today's Budget, in which the Chancellor said he was going to «level with» Britain, acknowledges as much by adopting a version of Labour's plan on National Insurance and by increasing the spending on infrastructure too.

Retired Senior Volunteer Program: Seniors concludes the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint would eliminate all funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service, which is the grantor for the very popular Retired Senior Volunteer Program (herein referred to as «RSVP»).

The Reform Party of New York State represents the interests of voters who are concerned with out - of - control spending, growing budget deficits, an unsustainable national debt, as well as gross mismanagement in government and unethical behavior from elected representatives.