Sentences with phrase «one's appropriations bill»

Given the broad budgetary powers the governor enjoys, lawmakers opposed to the plan would risk a government shut down if it were to be inserted in an emergency appropriation bill.

This language has been included in Appropriations bills for the last several years.

Powell, who was secretary of state during Republican President George W. Bush's first term, said he was optimistic that lawmakers would make improvements to the Affordable Care Act but criticized Congress for being unable to pass appropriations bills in recent years.

Mr. Bush vetoed the bill because it would have allowed federal funding of abortions for victims of rape and incest — a provision anti-abortion House members had kept out of appropriations bills for almost a decade.

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...

The minibus moniker is a play on the «omnibus» tag used when Congress consolidates all 12 annual appropriations bills into a single package.

Such bills have become a regular feature of government as Congress has had difficulty completing the regular annual appropriations bills in a timely way.

Paterson objected to what he deemed a «poison pill» inserted into an education appropriation bill by the Legislature.

Trump warned Senate Republicans through Twitter a week ago that they should get the annual spending bills passed before the August recess, a high bar for a chamber that didn't pass any regular appropriations bills in 2017.

Washington — Summer youth - employment programs would receive an additional $ 100 million and child - nutrition programs an additional $ 545.5 million in the current fiscal year under amendments to a supplemental appropriations bill passed by the Senate earlier this month.

With NAR's support, Senator Mary Landrieu (D - LA) successfully added a 1 - year delay of «grandfathered» flood insurance rates to the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Bill as approved by committee on July 18.

The 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill now heads to the Senate for further debate.

The bill includes full Appropriations legislation and funding for the remaining 11 annual Appropriations bills through the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 2017.

The recently passed 2014 omnibus appropriations bill includes an amendment prohibiting DOE from enforcing energy - efficient light bulb standards.

In addition to Robby's Law, the Defense Appropriation Bill signed by George W. Bush on Dec 30, 2006 allows injured military K9s to retire early and to get adopted by their former handlers.

The Associated Press reports that late Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee approved an agriculture appropriations bill which would essentially gut all of the recent, hard - won legislative victories to improve the health of Americans, especially children.

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.

HB 3551 Requests the opinions of the Supreme Judicial Court on certain questions of law pertaining to the origin of a «money bill» in relation to the General Appropriation Bill for fiscal year 2016.

However, in July the Senate Appropriations Committee's FY2018 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill provided no funding for Yucca Mountain.

If Congress can not pass separate appropriations bills, it could instead roll all spending into one package, called an omnibus bill.

November 14, 2016 Committee for Children, recognizing the critical role federal policy makers play in the safety, well - being, and educational success of children in America, joins with members of the Children's Budget Coalition to ask Congress to pass full appropriations bills before their winter break, halt spending cuts to programs supporting children, and use their budgeting authority to equitably distribute federal dollars to our most vulnerable citizens.

If, then, the McGuinty Government in Ontario, or others across the country presented to their legislatures Estimates and appropriation bills with respect to correctional services and the parts of justice that are expected to take on greater work under C - 10, granting the same amount of money next year as this year?

The undersigned members of the National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE) write to urge you to eliminate funding for the District of Columbia private school voucher program during markup of the FY2013 Financial Services Appropriations bill.

But if any federal voucher program is to require private schools to follow IDEA, that would require either a direct change to the law outside the budget process, or change to the language in a congressional appropriations bill funding the Education Department.

President Obama recently signed the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill into law.

There is also a federal appropriations bill which prohibits expenditure of federal funds to prosecute marijuana crimes which are legal under state law, although these bills only last a year at a time.

An omnibus appropriations bill containing a wide range of tax deductions and a provision relating to the local municipality sales tax restrictions.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would get a 34 % cut under the fiscal year 2014 Interior and Environment Appropriations bill unveiled by the House Appropriations Committee, while spending at the Smithsonian would drop 19 %.

«We look forward to working closely with Congress as the Defense Appropriations bill works its way toward enactment and with the Department of Defense as it develops its fiscal year 2017 research agenda,» said Slay.

The United States House Committee on Appropriations and the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations have jurisdiction over appropriations bills.

In the budget appropriation bill heading to Congress this week, there are no less than 39 different measures that would in one way or another dissolve or weaken environmental protections.

«The way forward is that we have passed budget, and we are saying bring a supplementary appropriation bill.»

A new appropriation for the new fiscal year must be passed in order for continued spending to occur, or passage of a special appropriations bill known as a continuing resolution, which generally permits continued spending for a short period of time — usually at prior year levels.

[10][11] Supplemental appropriations bills also provide funding for recovering from unexpected natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy (the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013).

By a 29 - to - 52 vote, the senators failed to table the measure, which was offered on Oct. 20 as an amendment to the fiscal 1984 Justice Department appropriation bill by Senator Jesse A. Helms, Republican of North Carolina.

The Legislature must make clear what language in the Governor's proposed appropriations bills must be modified to keep vital public services operating effectively and efficiently.

Some residents of Plateau have criticised the House of Assembly for considering and passing the 2018 Appropriation Bill within nine days, and described the process as «too hasty».

The Senate Appropriations Committee's approval July 20 of its fiscal 2018 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill, for instance, would restore spending for the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy and reverse the proposal to eliminate the program as outlined in the president's fiscal 2018 budget plan.

A House appropriations bill introduced days ago gives the EPA a $ 7.5 billion budget in 2017, or $ 528 million less than the agency's 2017 budget.

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

A summary of the subcommittee draft of the fiscal year 2018 Energy and Water Appropriations bill follows:

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.

Some states have also passed laws which support breastfeeding mothers and the Right to Breastfeed Act (included as part of a Treasury - Postal Appropriations bill) permits a woman to breastfeed her child «at any location in a Federal building or on Federal property, if the woman and her child are otherwise authorized to be present at the location.»