Sentences with phrase «national defense spending»

The main contributors to the contraction were national defense spending and inventory investment, each shaving roughly 1.3 percentage points from growth.

Not exact matches

After 16 years and $ 120 billion spent on the reconstruction of Afghanistan since the US invasion, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are alarmingly unprepared to take on the resurgent Taliban that's slowly clawed back territory since NATO combat operations ended there in 2014.

The president's $ 4.4 trillion budget, unveiled Monday, includes federal spending of $ 200 billion for infrastructure upgrades; $ 18 billion for Trump's border wall; and $ 716 billion for national defense.

For Kennan, the Reagan era was not «Morning in America», but a time when «the annual spending of hundreds of billions of dollars on «defense» has developed into a national addiction.»

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.

Under Obama's proposal, national security programs would see an increase of $ 38 billion over current spending limits, raising the defense budget to $ 561 billion.

Dialogue between Beijing, Tokyo, and Washington can help reduce the risks and costs of ill - advised defense spending, even if such engagement can not bridge differences between these countries» perceived national interests

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

Says a National League scout who saw Cust inhigh school, «Defense was never a priority for him — he was the kind of kidwho spent 90 percent of his time hitting.»

The United States spends more on national defense than China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan combined.

Notice how low spending and a strong national defense are in conflict.

February 21, 2005: Seoul's semi-official Yonhap News Agency reports that South Korea's defense minister, Yoon Kwang - ung, tells a National Assembly Committee that North Korea has reprocessed «only part» of the 8,000 spent fuel rods from the Yongbyon reactor.

This week, the full House approved its first spending legislation of the year — a so - called «minibus» that packaged together four individual spending measures covering defense, energy, and other areas — while Senate appropriators unveiled and approved two bills funding NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Departments of Commerce and Transportation.

R&D spending includes everything from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's initiatives in the Defense Department relating to biosecurity and technological tracking devices, to the National Institutes of Health's projects relating to research into precision medicine and advances in the understanding of the brain.

Taken alone, research funding — a category that does not include development spending, which is primarily found in the Defense Department, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Energy Department — would increase by at least 2 % in fiscal 2017 based on spending measures House and Senate appropriations panels have approved, the report said.

Analysts at the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank say the U.S. not only spends more than any other nation on research and development, but this spending is growing faster than that of the European Union and Japan.

The study was included in the National Defense Authorization Act, a Defense Department spending bill that the House and Senate agreed to last week.

(NaturalHealth365) In 2015, healthcare spending in the United States reached a jaw - dropping $ 3.2 trillion — exceeding the federal spending for national defense, homeland security, education and welfare.

Payments to social security recipients, the costs of national defense, medical expenditures, and interest payments on the national debt constitute the bulk of federal government spending.

And for those who say we can't afford to pay teachers a decent wage, I ask them to consider how much money we spend on national defense each year and the size of salaries and bonuses that are paid each year to the many thousands who work on Wall Street.

However, while I was clearing my credential, working with mentor teachers to reflect on my practice, and finding out how real students differed from theoretical ones, I also spent long hours after school with the speech and debate team reading philosophy and theory and talking about innovative alternatives for national defense, natural resource allocation, and, of course, education.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

Furthermore, with deficits at record levels and interest payments on the national debt set to rise at a real rate of 13 percent annually over the next 10 years, interest payments could reach $ 725 billion and exceed defense spending by 2018 [13] if not sooner.

After successfully passing a budget amendment back in May that basically forbids the Pentagon from acknowledging climate science — despite the fact that the Department of Defense considers doing so to be vital to national security — his newest effort prohibits both the U.S. Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers from spending «to design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change.»

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

All of the major federal agencies that it relies on for research grants — including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, NASA, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration — are feeling the squeeze of shrinking spending in an effort to control the ballooning federal budget deficit.

A new report from the National Resource Defense Council states that Americans are spending $ 19 billion a year in electricity costs from vampire appliances and electronics.

Craig also spent five years, from 1984 to 1988, as Senator Edward Kennedy's senior adviser on defense, foreign policy, and national security issues.»

Our lawyers spend a significant amount of time in labor and employment litigation, which includes the defense of employment discrimination and wrongful discharge cases in federal and state courts, arbitration proceedings, the defense of individual employment contract actions, and proceedings before various state and federal administrative agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, United States, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Departments of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, and OSHA.

Alan Crotzer to Testify Before Congressional Subcommittee on Indigent Defense Florida Man Spent 24 Years in Prison for Someone Else's Crime On Thursday, June 4, Alan Crotzer will join two other members of the National Committee on the Right to -LSB-...]

The idea of implied consent is a much, much broader legal concept that one for emergency medical treatment; Hawaii was a country too; interstate highways were justified using the National Defense power although interstate commerce is used to justify a great deal of federal activity; the drinking age is justified with spending for the general welfare.

The approval of the defense spending bill called the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) may lead to the mainstream adoption of Blockchain technology by government agencies in defense spending bill called the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) may lead to the mainstream adoption of Blockchain technology by government agencies in Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) may lead to the mainstream adoption of Blockchain technology by government agencies in the US.

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 end result of our resume overhaul was a succinct, hard - hitting portrait of a career that has been well - spent in the service of our country and one that will be of strong value to a company engaged in intelligence, national security, and homeland defense.

Prior to her debut into Real Estate, Peggy spent the majority of her career in the sciences working in municipal, educational and national defense laboratories.

Over the first half of 2017, there is little doubt the U.S. economy will enjoy a stimulus, largely via a combination of tax cuts and government spending on infrastructure and national defense.

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.