Sentences with phrase «passed budget boosts»

The latest display of greed is especially galling: The council's just - passed budget boosts member - item spending — the cash pols get to pass around their districts like Christmas turkeys — a full 9 percent over last year, to $ 396 million.

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In January the U.S. Congress passed a budget deal that boosts U.S. government spending, following a December tax package that slashes corporate tax rates.

[The Congressional Budget Office projected the immigration bill passed by the Senate in 2013 would boost the economy and reduce the federal deficit, while slightly reducing wages.

Mr. Cuomo has admitted his education reform agenda will be a tough sell amid pushback from the politically powerful unions, but provided an incentive: he promised to boost an education budget increase from a planned $ 377 million to $ 1.1 billion, but only if the reforms pass.

Instead, the $ 1.3 trillion budget bill passed by congressional leaders boosted the block grant program's funding by $ 305 million.

Co-sponsored by Lamar Smith (R — TX) and other members of the Republican majority on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and passed by a largely partisan vote, the House bill would give the Office of Science a 5.3 % boost next year but hold its budget flat the following year.

House of Representatives spending panel members on the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee would match the president's 17 % spending boost for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) if the draft budget they passed yesterday gets passed later this year.

Last week, lawmakers passed a state budget that they promised would offer teachers an average 7 percent raise — but instead of boosting all teachers» pay by a simple percentage, a new salary schedule is in place that offers younger, inexperienced teachers big gains while shortchanging veteran teachers who have gone to great lengths to build on their teaching credentials.

Last week, lawmakers passed a state budget that they promised would offer teachers an average 7 percent raise — but instead of boosting all teachers» pay by a simple percentage, a new salary schedule is in place that offers younger,...

The House approved Huberty's bill, and if it ends up passing the Senate, it'll boost the basic budget for every student by about $ 200.

There are many reasons, but consider this: Gov. Scott Walker's state budget proposal to boost state aid to schools by $ 649 million is a long way from the finish line and some key members of his own party have cast doubts on whether it will pass.

Charter school budgets will see a boost of roughly $ 20 million under a bill that passed the House in a 60 - 11 vote on Friday.

In reacting to the shooting deaths of 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, the Legislature passed a new budget and related bills that boosted funding for resource officers by $ 97.5 million to $ 162 million in the upcoming academic year.

The trouble is that some of that fuel — the $ 300 billion boost to government expenditures — is slated to burn off after two years under the budget agreement passed by Congress.