Sentences with phrase «on appropriation when»

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Time was when we blamed poverty on indolence, attributed domination and hierarchies to natural order and appropriation of land as the will of God.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said the state needs more accountability when giving out economic development funds, noting this year's budget again relies heavily on lump sum appropriations that have little oversight regarding their allocation.
Election years tend to chill swift movement on appropriations bills — especially when there's potential turnover in leadership of one or both chambers.
It will include fiscal rules (including rules governing election year spending), provisions for transparency and sanctions (including sanctions on the Executive when it breaches the Appropriation Act as was done brazenly in 2012).
On oil benchmark, the senate spokesman said the red chamber would note the advice by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) when considering the 2016 Appropriation Bill.
Major appropriations bills had not yet been introduced for the public to view when the Democratic governor and his top aides began speaking to reporters in the Capitol's ceremonial Red Room, but Cuomo insisted that leaders of the Assembly and State Senate — who were not present for the announcement — had signed off on it.
The General Assembly's Appropriations Committee has just begun holding public hearings and state agency presentations on Malloy's proposed $ 19.8 billion budget, which is $ 569 million less than what lawmakers originally agreed to last year when they passed a two - year $ 40 billion plan.
«But when we get into appropriations, Meals on Wheels is a wonderful program.
[2] When Congress and the president fail to agree on and pass one or more of the regular appropriations bills, a continuing resolution can be passed instead.
Nita Lowey, the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, will introduce a bill next week when the House of Representatives reconvenes that would push states to require the use of ignition interlock devices for a minimum of six months for all convicted drunk driving offenders.
That agenda got a hearing on Capitol Hill last July when the Department of Agriculture received a surprise appropriation of $ 3 million to strengthen enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act and to promote humane practices in slaughterhouses.
On Capitol Hill, a report accompanying the Labor / Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) appropriations bill recommends that when a journal accepts a paper generated with NIH support, a copy be sent to PubMed Central, the NIH National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) archive of full - text articles.
The minibus moniker is a play on the «omnibus» tag used when Congress consolidates all 12 annual appropriations bills into a single package.
When government funding for research depends on annual Congressional appropriations (as it always does, at least in the U.S.), the direction of careers can depend on decisions made by politicians that have little, if anything, to do with scientific needs.
The appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education approved a 2.6 % raise for NIH; more details are likely to come out next week when the full appropriations committee is expected to vote on the bill.
But such constitutional proprieties were set aside when Judge DeGrasse — with no previous education expertise and no relevant staff support and without considering the impact on other areas of expenditure — intervened to establish the level of education appropriations for New York City.
All that changed when Rep. David R. Obey of Wisconsin, the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, succeeded in attaching $ 45 million for the program in the current Department of Education budget.
(Sec. 7004) With respect to payments to LEAs for federally connected children under the Impact Aid program, the bill: (1) modifies eligibility requirements for heavily impacted LEAs and LEAs serving on - base children during renovation or repair projects, (2) makes certain formula adjustments that apply when appropriations are insufficient to make payments in full, (3) establishes hold harmless provisions with respect to LEAs facing payment reductions, and (4) eliminates maintenance of effort requirements for LEAs.
When asked specifically about this in a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, and Related Agencies meeting in May, Education Secretary DeVos refused to guarantee that she would prohibit private schools from receiving federal dollars if they discriminate.35
GOP leadership was quick to call the budget blueprint «dead on arrival» when the administration unveiled it last month, and chairman of the appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Roy Blunt, R - Mo., followed suit at the start of the hearing.
She got a cold reception on Tuesday, then a kick on the backside on Thursday, when Congress approved an appropriations package that increases rather than decreases, spending for public education.
What a shame, then, that it also would weaken a key aspect of existing law, making the new bill unworthy of support when it comes before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday.
When the General Assembly's Appropriations Committee approved Malloy's proposed budget on March 28,2014 they also failed to include the money needed for the magnet schools and, like Malloy, failed to put in the money that is needed for the magnet school expansion that has already been approved.
When Duncan's testimony broached the broader idea at a March Congressional hearing, the House Appropriations Committee chairman, David Obey, a Democratic representative from Wisconsin — which finished 26th out of 41 entrants in the first round of the Race — reminded Duncan of the states» dire need for basic funds and signaled his skepticism about the Race reforms, declaring, «When the sailboat is sinking, my top priority would not be to put a new coat of varnish on the deck.»
Let's hope that Congress will consider the needs of America's seniors when voting on budget appropriations for HUD and FHA.
But appropriation only makes sense when it's the underdog taking on the alphadog.
These promising exhibitions attest to the difficulty of calling abstraction dead or derivative, especially when almost so many since Postmodernism rely on appropriation.
My gut on this: I do not mind Prince / Gogo getting their comeuppance — the schadenfreude quotient is high — but Prince is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to appropriation, and this ruling by Batts muddies the waters and complicates conventional artistic practice across the board.
AT A MOMENT when almost everything is collage and montage — with cut - and - paste the most basic operation on computers and image appropriation and object juxtaposition the most common procedures in art — it is a pleasure to reencounter the modernist origins of these devices.
Instead of focusing on the nearly immeasurable moment when a species ceases to exist, he and other biologists say, science should focus harder on the forces that lead toward extinction — the destruction or fragmentation of habitat, the introduction of invasive species, the appropriation of water or other vital resources.
(Sec. 145) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to: (1) revise the energy efficiency public information program to make it into a Smart Grid and energy efficiency program and extend such program to 2020; (2) require the Secretary to report to Congress on such program for each year when appropriations exceed $ 10 million; (3) change such program's termination date to December 31, 2020; and (4) authorize $ 90 million for such program for each fiscal year through FY2020.
Dicks was serving as the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee when he ended his 36 - year congressional career in 2013.
«The Appropriations bill is an important step in the right direction when it comes to women's health — holding the line on deeply unpopular abortion restrictions and expanding access for Peace Corps volunteers.
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