Sentences with phrase «of spending bills»

Both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives yesterday approved a package of spending bills that include money for a range of science programs and President Barack Obama is likely to sign it into law today.

Congress then follows with a set of spending bills that provide actual funding; often these are very different from what the Administration had in mind.

Two years ago, the Obama administration and congressional Republicans struck a deal on overall spending levels that helped ease passage of spending bills for 2014 and 2015.

The House adopts a quartet of spending bills, the Commerce Department gets a mixed Senate bag, and a spending deal remains far off.

The state budget is on track to be finished on time and before the March 31 deadline now that all of the spending bills were finally printed shortly before midnight on Monday.

Sponsors inserted in the laws a provision allocating $ 1 million to implement the laws, a shrewd way to make it harder to overturn the laws by referendum because Michigan's constitution bars challenges of spending bills.

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The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, which included limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line and delaying limits on sodium and delaying a requirement to boost whole grains.

She voted against legislation to delay implementation of federal ozone standards, and she voted in support of a spending bill for energy and water programs.

I hope that the Senate Republicans and Conservative Dems will stop this joke of a SPENDING BILL dead in its tracks!!!

«The passage of this spending bill is a critical first step to finally getting Florida's farmers, ranchers and growers long - awaited and desperately needed relief,» state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam said in a prepared statement.

This matches Obama's 2013 budget request to Congress in February (see Nature 482, 283 — 285; 2012), but contrasts with the Senate version of the spending bill, which boosts the agency's funding by about $ 100 million.

In an effort to keep the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) focused on its expensive, flagship weather satellites, the Senate, in its version of the spending bill, had given NASA control of two smaller missions, Jason - 3, an ocean altimetry satellite, and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satellite.

«Congress won't decide on a final version of the spending bill that includes NIH until later this year.

His request for the study, part of a spending bill (p. 154) that Congress approved in December 2009 covering NSF and several other agencies, included a 6 - month deadline.

The House approved such a ban in February in its version of the spending bill, but on Friday Reid said that «neither the White House nor Senate Leaders is going to accept any EPA riders.»

As part of its spending bill, Congress formed a bipartisan budget conference led by Representative Paul Ryan (R - WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D - WA).

Not exact matches

MONTREAL — Watching television on the Internet is cheap and convenient, but so far only a small number of Canadians have cut the cord on traditional viewing as TV providers offer discount prices and spend more on programs to keep customers who pay bigger monthly bills.

The sight of bills moving through the legislative process could lift spirits, but it would be 2018 before the multipliers of that spending really kick in.

And the bill allows deductions on such spending to be immediate, instead of over several years.

But the trade - off of this focus on shareholder value is spending that benefits other stakeholders, like employees and customers, said Bill George, the former CEO of medical - device company Medtronic.

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.

The most valuable thing you can do is spending more of your time billing hours.

While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has generally downplayed the seriousness of the public health crisis, Clinton yesterday toured a Miami neighborhood health clinic near ground zero of the Zika outbreak and admonished lawmakers for having adjourned until after Labor Day without resolving a partisan impasse over the urgently needed spending bill.

So while some of the elderly self - employed will be motivated by paying their bills, others may have decided to spend the years they have left working for themselves rather than for others.

The billionaire said «there must have been a lot of people who believed» the infamous slogan on the Vote Leave campaign bus, which said Britain's weekly # 350 million EU membership bill should be spent on the NHS.

Just because someone has accumulated a bank account that rivals that of Bill Gates doesn't mean they spend like there is no tomorrow.

HARWOOD: I just want to ask you about that in light of two votes you made recently: one for a partisan tax bill that increased the deficit, the other against a bipartisan spending deal that also increased the deficit.

The House of Representatives averted a government shutdown on Thursday, narrowly passing a $ 1.1 trillion spending bill despite strenuous Democratic objections to controversial financial provisions.

If passed by the Senate, the spending bill would fund all government agencies through September 2015, except for the Department of Homeland Security, which would get an extension only through Feb. 27.

Sept. 30 marks the final day of fiscal year 2015 and members of Congress are working to pass a bill that would allow U.S. federal agencies to continue spending money, thus avoiding the second federal government shutdown in two years.

Clinton intervened in the Zika virus crisis in early August, joining many Republican and Democratic officials from Florida in demanding that Congress cut short its summer recess and pass the $ 1.1 billion spending bill to help combat the spread of the dreaded disease in the continental United States.

The Republican - controlled Congress departed in mid-July with a $ 1.1 billion spending bill to fight the spread of the virus and help develop a vaccine mired in the Senate.

Afterward, Trump said he wants the power to issue line - item vetoes on spending bills — a power many presidents have demanded, and that Congress has never granted — and that the Senate should eliminate the ability of a minority to filibuster legislation.

But he noted that Congress is under a March deadline to pass the Dreamers measure, saying «We've got other deadlines in front of that,» referring to the spending bills.

Bill Siwicki of Internet Retailer references Goldman Sachs, saying, «Tablets will play an increasingly important role as worldwide consumer spending via mobile jumps from $ 204 billion in 2014 to $ 626 billion in 2018...» If you aren't building ecommerce businesses with mobile in mind, you may be irrelevant in three to five years.

By spending 30 minutes a year haggling with your bill collectors, you could save a ton of money in the long run.

And this March, as my colleague Alex Paladino mentioned, the spending bill President Trump signed to fund the government through the end of September originally had an internet sales tax attached to it, before it was pulled out at the last minute.

The bill's main objective — capping future government spending on healthcare at rates that won't gobble up a bigger and bigger share of national income, as well as leaving more resources for investment and entrepreneurship — is exactly what government needs to do.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, asked about the possibility of attaching the immigration provision to a spending bill, said he wanted to resolve the issue.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The combined effects of President Trump's tax cuts and last month's budget - busting spending bill is sending the government's budget deficit toward the $ 1 trillion mark next year, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.

The White House is also likely to propose rolling backing some of the domestic spending increases in last month's government - wide funding 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.

Especially when you're right out of college and you've got bills to pay, it can be very easy to spend everything you make and say, «I can't afford to save right now.»

In disclosing its C - suite security spending, Herbalife explained that it had detected threats to the company and several of its executives, «specifically Mr. Johnson,» in 2013 — the same year that Bill Ackman publicly attacked the company as part of his short - selling campaign to depress the price of its stock.

The U.S. average has about 3.5 % of total income going toward energy bills, though one in five families can actually spend up to 20 to 50 % of their income on utilities.

The bill divides federal healthcare funding to the states using block grants — a lump sum of sorts paid up front to states — rather than the current percent match of actual spending.

Sit down with your credit card bills and bank statements and track how much you spend across each category annually, including rent, food, and all of those one - time irregular expenses.

Most entrepreneurs either don't bill for the time spent on a project or, if they do, they will short change themselves and only bill for one component of the task.

Among the dozens of protest causes were transportation costs; Native Indian rights; government spending on the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics; corruption in state and local governments; and a bill in the Brazilian congress that would authorize psychologists to try and «cure» homosexuals.