Sentences with phrase «over voted spending»

According to the Auditor General, accrual appropriations would provide Parliament with the same basis and approval over voted spending as the government's overall financial plan and summary financial statements.

She argues that accrual - based appropriations would provide Parliament with a consistent basis for control and approval over voted spending that is the same as the overall government financial plan».

Not exact matches

Now that conservatives complained about the $ 1.3 trillion catchall spending bill — which blew through previous budget limits by $ 300 billion over this year and next, House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote this week on a proposed amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.

The decline in «voted» spending — the spending over which the government has the most discretion — declines by only $ 4.4 billion.

Unlike the Public Accounts, the Estimates have changed very little over time, even though the Estimates provide the details of the spending requests by departments and agencies, which parliamentary committees review and Parliament votes on.

When I was the only person in a church meeting of a hundred plus, who voted against spending thousands on a building (mainly because of dodgy fiscal justification and concerns over leadership empire building), I obviously became villein of the peace!

Last year in the Tap City an outfielder who spent nine years in the farm systems of three other teams wound up second in the National League Rookie of the Year vote (Scott Podsednik); a 29 - year - old reliever released by the Rangers in March 2003 became a lights - out closer (Danny Kolb); and a journeyman discarded by Texas in April and then Toronto in July became one of the league's most effective starters over the final two months (Doug Davis).

Simon Hughes has drawn a line in the sand on the row over the spending review, saying Lib Dems would vote against changes to housing benefit unless there are major changes.

For over 25 years, Slaughter has voted for trillions in higher taxes, wasteful spending, and new debt.

Representatives of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan both have votes on PACB, a relatively obscure state entity that has power over broad swaths of spending.

Cochran's campaign dove in hard over the last three weeks — spending more than a half - million dollars on a data - driven get - out - the - vote effort.

I spoke late this morning with one Republican who said ultimately McDonald was just too exhausted to press on, noting he has spent over a year on the defensive since his «yes» vote on the gay marriage bill last June caused conservatives to target him.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro wasn't on the ballot this year, so the week of the general election wasn't spent campaigning or stressing over vote tallies.

A growing rift among Senate Republicans over federal spending on Medicaid and the opioid epidemic is imperiling legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act that Senate leaders are trying to put to a vote by the end of next week.

«After voting to raise taxes on the average Central New York family by more than $ 5500 over the last two years, spending State money so recklessly that New York almost went bankrupt, and approving an increase for people on welfare even if they refuse to work, David Valesky should be spending his time apologizing to Central New Yorkers, not arranging for payoffs, which secure his ability to further damage our region and state.

I spent the evening surrounded by family and friends while we watched as over 18,000 votes in total were cast!

Earlier this week, the Electoral Commission announced an investigation into Vote Leave over whether it breached the # 7m EU referendum spending limit.

Legislator Tom Barraga (R - East Islip), who spent over 20 years in Albany as an assemblyman, voted along with legislators Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk) and Tom Cilmi (R - Bay Shore) against the county Legislature's budget — pointing to past bailouts in New York City and Nassau County as evidence the legislation would not be much of a risk at all.

Doing even that well in a primary against an incumbent is difficult; for example, Reshma Saujani spent over $ 1 million in her campaign against Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney that same year, yet received only 19 % of the vote.

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Pataki noted that his national PAC, Revere America, spent well over six figures targeting Democrats who had voted «yes» on health care reform, including outgoing Rep. John Hall, who lost to Republican Congresswoman - elect Nan Hayworth.

The Troy City Council approved a $ 67.94 million budget for 2016 by an 8 - 1 vote, but the struggles over the spending plan may have one more battle.

«Miami Democrats do the Nancy Pelosi squirm as House minority leader visits South Florida» via David Smiley of the Miami Herald — The top Democrat in the U.S. House had just spent an hour gushing about Debbie Mucarsel - Powell «s «courage,» highlighting her congressional campaign to knock off one of the most vulnerable Republicans in America and bashing Rep. Carlos Curbelo over his voting record on health care.

There will be no honeymoon period for the new government on education spending — particularly if the unions do vote to strike over the issue.

Chazy Central Rural School's $ 10,728,470 spending proposal, which required a supermajority vote, was approved with just over 69 percent of voter support.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who's vowed to lead a campaign against New York's Republican Congressional representatives in the 2018 elections, has spent the final weeks of 2017 feuding with them over their votes on the federal tax overhaul bill.

Vote Leave is under investigation by the Electoral Commission over whether it breached the # 7m EU referendum spending limit, with allegations being made that it channelled funds for a social Brexit media campaign via # 625,000 in donations to a student.

Yet over the final two months of the Brexit campaign, several pro-Leave campaign groups (Vote Leave, the DUP, Veterans for Britain — and bizarrely, a 23 year old fashion student named Darren Grimes) would spend over # 3.5 m with Aggregate IQ.

Over the course of the final few weeks of the referendum, the Electoral Commission Website tells us, Arron Banks» Leave.EU, the official Vote Leave campaign, Grassroots Out, Ukip and the Democratic Unionist Party collectively spent over # 800,000 with Soopa Doopa, a branding agency based, you guessed it, in the tiny Cambridgeshire city of Over the course of the final few weeks of the referendum, the Electoral Commission Website tells us, Arron Banks» Leave.EU, the official Vote Leave campaign, Grassroots Out, Ukip and the Democratic Unionist Party collectively spent over # 800,000 with Soopa Doopa, a branding agency based, you guessed it, in the tiny Cambridgeshire city of over # 800,000 with Soopa Doopa, a branding agency based, you guessed it, in the tiny Cambridgeshire city of Ely.

When it finally came time to tallying the votes late Tuesday night, New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg's victory over Democratic challenger and city comptroller Bill Thompson turned out to be remarkably narrow — and surprisingly so, in part because of the gap the size of the Hudson between what the candidates spent on this race, some $ 81 million from Bloomberg's pocket to the $ 6.6 million Thompson dropped according to recent filings.

In the third annual cycle of PBNYC, residents across 10 NYC Council Districts came together to discuss ideas for improving their communities, and nearly 17,000 people voted on how to spend over $ 14 million.

«The Minority Caucus has control over whether or not the County will spend surplus dollars or bond for expenditures because both actions need a super majority approval, eight votes,» said Minority Leader Mills.

Another whistleblower, Shahmir Sanni, has now revealed that BeLeave was run from Vote Leave's offices, and had no control over the sudden, massive # 625,000 donation, all of which was spent directly with AggregateIQ.

The opposition, which also include pro and anti abortion rights groups, second amendment advocates and the state's Conservative Party, spent over one million dollars running ads and distributing lawn signs in the weeks leading up to the vote.

The board spent 3 1/2 hours over two meetings in May and June listening to a debate of the project's merits, reviewing the request and voting on several variances.

Two weeks ago, after the House of Commons vote on the budget, when Labour MPs joined with a number of Tory backbenchers to demand cuts in EU spending over the next seven years, slightly more voters (42 %) wanted the EU budget cut rather than maintained or increased (39 %).

Brexit campaigner Shahmir Sanni told Channel 4 that the British referendum's «Vote Leave» campaign spent over its legal limit by using the Canadian data firm called Aggregate IQ — adding that the company had links to Cambridge Analytica.

But the debate over the amendment lived on thanks to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who spent the week attacking the amendment as a cheap way to buy votes for the overall measure — and an expensive burden on New York State.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who's vowed to lead a campaign against the state's Republican congressional representatives in the 2018 elections, has spent the final weeks of 2017 feuding with them over their votes on the federal tax overhaul bill.

To spend two years, or over a year, coming up with charter changes working in a bipartisan fashion and you throw it away because some blogger that lives in his mom's attic is intimidating elected officials these days is disgusting and cowards to those who worked on this project and then decided to yield to some blogger that is telling them how to vote.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Onondaga County Legislature on Tuesday voted to spend $ 2.5 million a year from a new casino revenue stream to build a new Onondaga Lake amphitheater and upgrades to Solvay's infrastructure over the objections of some members.

Fact — the town spent over $ 12,000 on Opus 40 without a Town Board vote.

As congressional debate bogged down over an array of spending and philosophical issues late last week, it appeared that the House and the Senate would not vote on their education spending bills until this week.

The Madison School Board had been expected to vote June 30 on whether to spend $ 273,000 over three years on software whose developers say features algorithms that can predict which prospective teachers are likely to raise student test scores.

On the other hand, a handful of districts have formally voted to maintain the April votes to continue to give local voters a say over spending, even if within the caps.

The Wake County Board of Commissioners has voted to increase funding substantially over the past four fiscal years and is again considering another sizable increase in spending for the Wake County Public School System.

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

The debate over spending and influence and climate legislation, as cast in the report and ensuing critiques, is academically valuable, perhaps, but nearly meaningless in assessing the roots of climate action or inaction for one reason: It presumes that both sides in the fight had an equivalent task in either gaining or avoiding 60 Senate votes.

CDP, voted number one climate research provider by investors, works with 827 institutional investors with assets of US$ 100 trillion and 89 purchasing organisations with a combined annual spend of over US$ 2.7 trillion, to motivate companies to disclose their impacts on the environment and natural resources and take action to reduce them.

CDP, voted number one cli - mate research provider by investors, works with 827 institutional investors with assets of US$ 100 trillion and 89 purchasing organisations with a combined annual spend of over US$ 2.7 trillion, to motivate companies to disclose their impacts on the environment and natural resources and take ac - tion to reduce them.