Sentences with phrase «on the appropriation bill»

As a result, provisions adjusting or extending discretionary spending limits could not be considered because the actual increase or decrease in spending would not occur until subsequent action on appropriations bills subject to the limits.

Election years tend to chill swift movement on appropriations bills — especially when there's potential turnover in leadership of one or both chambers.

The General Secretary of the largest opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC); Johnson Aseidu Nketia has said the move by the minority in parliament to abstain from voting on the appropriation bill was in the right direction.

«It is the first time I can recall in the time that I've been here our actually cutting spending on an appropriation bill,» Mr. McConnell said.

Given the weighty interests at stake in this encounter between science and ethics, relying on an increasingly Delphic, decade - old single paragraph rider on an appropriations bill hardly seems adequate.

Traditionally (but not necessarily) the House acts first on appropriations bills and, indeed, the Senate Appropriations Committee is still in the hearing phase.

The full House and Senate then debate and vote on the appropriations bills from each of the 12 subcommittees.

Rep. Hal Rogers (R - Kentucky), the incoming chair of the House Appropriations committee, said he «would be open to use riders on appropriations bills to block EPA's climate change regulations next year,» according to ClimateWire (by subscription).

The full House of Representatives has not yet voted on the appropriations bill, which would also need to be approved by the Senate.

Not exact matches

In the four decades that the current system for budgeting and spending tax dollars has been in effect, Congress has managed to pass all required appropriations bills on time only four times.

Senate passes amended military appropriations bill to require the Secretary of Defense to issue a report on blockchain technology's potential offensive and defensive use cases, including ways in which adversaries might deploy it to damage US interests.

I think the least that we can do in order to comfort those that lost a loved one on that perilous day, is to ask Congress that an appropriations bill be authorized to send each each survivor of that infamous attack, a king - size box of Kleenex tissues.

Now Rep. DeLauro has secured language in the Agriculture Appropriations bill's report which would require the USDA to issue minimum national standards on this issue, despite its earlier reluctance to do so.

Earlier this week, the House Appropriations Committee passed its 2018 Agricultural Appropriations bill and, thanks to the efforts of Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D - CT), the bill addresses two issues of particular interest here on The Lunch... [Continue reading]

A United States House of Representatives appropriations bill (HR 2490) with a breastfeeding amendment was signed into law on September 29, 1999.

«America's farmers and ranchers do their part to put food on our tables, and this bill is Congress's part to ensure the safety, productivity, and success of our agricultural industries,» House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers said.

Democrats attempted to remove a provision from the agriculture appropriations bill that will give certain schools a waiver on compliance with nutrition standards.

Two amendments added to the Senate agriculture appropriations bill on Thursday deal with horse slaughter and genetically modified salmon.

On July 12, 2017, the House Appropriations Committee voted out its Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Agriculture Appropriations Bill.

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Saraki also stated that the 2017 — 2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF / FSP) would be debated and passed this week, while the consideration on the 2017 Appropriation Bill would occupy the three sitting days of next week.

On Friday afternoon, the governor's office released 259 individual vetoes for the appropriation budget bills, which were passed by the state legislature at the end of March.

The latest version of the fiscal 2018 Capital Projects bill (A. 3004D) would further fatten the State and Municipal Facilities Program (SMFP), bringing its total available funding to $ 1.64 billion, based on $ 1.925 billion in total appropriations over the last five fiscal years.

The court was divided, with no clear majority, though five judges concurred that the governor had not exceeded in this particular instance the constitutional limits on what an appropriations bill can contain.

Both appropriations were included in the Capital Projects bill introduced shortly before 1 a.m. on Friday and expected to be taken up before day's end in the state Assembly.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., has been upfront about his wish to approve nominations and consider appropriations bills on the floor this year.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., speak to reporters following a meeting of House and Senate leaders in Speaker Ryan's office on the $ 1.3 trillion fiscal 2018 omnibus appropriations bill on Wednesday, March 21, 2018.

Mashing up Google Earth and with the companies, universities and nonprofit recipients of earmarks in the House Defense Appropriations bill (available from Sunlight and Taxpayers for Common Sense on EarmarkWatch.org), citizens can get a bird's eye view of where members of Congress are shipping our defense dollars, and zoom in close on recipients.

On certain occasions, where less controversial bills have been passed into law, a package of the remaining appropriations bills will be bundled to finish funding work, and this package is known colloquially as a «minibus.»

[7] Both committees have twelve matching subcommittees tasked with working on one of the twelve annual regular appropriations bills.

On Wednesday night, Rep. Rodney FrelinghuysenRodney Procter FrelinghuysenGOP revolts multiply against retiring Ryan Budget chairman Womack eyes appropriations switch Trump's budget chief talks spending clawback with key chairman MORE (R - N.J.), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, introduced the one - week bill to fund the government through May 5, predicting leadership would announce a long - termappropriations switch Trump's budget chief talks spending clawback with key chairman MORE (R - N.J.), the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, introduced the one - week bill to fund the government through May 5, predicting leadership would announce a long - termAppropriations Committee, introduced the one - week bill to fund the government through May 5, predicting leadership would announce a long - term deal shortly.

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In the end, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared the budget on time, based on the passage of major appropriations bills that keep state government funded into the new fiscal year.

Under the Constitution, the Legislature is not allowed to consider any bill making an appropriation until it acts on all the appropriation bills submitted by the governor; in layman's terms, the Executive Budget.

He said «following the receipt of full brief on the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the National Assembly, and to buttress the unity at the highest level of government, President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated that it is in the interest of the nation's economy for the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to sign the Appropriation Bill into law.

The official Public Law isn't available on THOMAS yet, but CNN, the Washington Post, other news outlets all link to what appears to be the 35 page Senate Amendment to the House appropriations bill.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo released his 30 - day budget amendments, which jammed the Legislature by stuffing ever more policy (particularly ethics reforms) into appropriations bills, on Feb. 21 — almost two weeks ago.

On Tuesday at the plenary, the Ekiti State 2016 Review Appropriation Bill passed second reading on the floor of the assembly while three other laws were read for the first timOn Tuesday at the plenary, the Ekiti State 2016 Review Appropriation Bill passed second reading on the floor of the assembly while three other laws were read for the first timon the floor of the assembly while three other laws were read for the first time.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday said the 2017 Appropriation Bill that he will present to the joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday would take Nigeria out of its current economic woods.

Some financial experts on Friday faulted the increase in the oil benchmark of the 2018 appropriation bill from 45 dollars to 51 dollars by the Senate.

House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees will debate and amend appropriations bills, and both chambers will vote on the bills and reconcilAppropriations subcommittees will debate and amend appropriations bills, and both chambers will vote on the bills and reconcilappropriations bills, and both chambers will vote on the bills and reconcile differences.

We need to continue to focus on cutting our debt and defecit in common sense ways, and hopefully, next year, the goal is to go through the regular appropriations process department by department, committee by committee, instead of one end of the year spending bill.»

The proposal in Cuomo's appropriations bill would require officials to submit quarterly reports to Joint Commission on Public Ethics identifying some additional information about their clients.

He and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., also each discussed the pace of progress of appropriations bills as the measures compete for time with nominations on the Senate floor...

Leading the debate on the bill, Ali Ndume, senate leader, implored the committee on appropriations to investigate how the funds in the budget would be spent.

And this Heritage Action blog post has a long list of policy riders that Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee have proposed over the past year that Heritage suggests ought to be included in the upcoming bill.

- After final action on the general appropriation bill or on recommendation of the governor, special appropriation bills may be enacted.

Saraki, however, said members of the upper chamber had resolved to start consideration of the 2016 Appropriation Bill on January 19, 2016 with only the original document submitted to the National Assembly by Buhari.

«We believe it would be inappropriate to insist on the inclusion of such funding in a must - pass appropriations bill,» Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D - N.Y.) and four Democratic colleagues wrote of the wall in a recent letter to the Senate's Republican leadership.

Republicans adjourned the House at 3:15 a.m. until after July 4th after Speaker Paul Ryan took the remarkable step of calling a vote on a major appropriations bill in the wee hours and without any debate., but Democrats were still at it well after 4 a.m.