Sentences with phrase «passing the budget in»

The director - general assured that the Budget Office was committed to ensuring involvement of Nigerians in the budget process, adding that the National Assembly was also committed to passing the budget in March.

No matter what Albany lawmakers do to pass a budget in the near future, they'll likely have a chance to tackle the same problems again soon enough.

One of the two school boards on Long Island that failed to pass budgets in the first round of voting decided to reduce its budget to within the state - mandated tax cap, and the other deferred a decision on how to proceed with the June 21 revote until its next meeting.

Counties will start passing their budgets in the fall, and will have to make up that revenue with service cuts or increased property taxes.

Paterson took to the airwaves — his preferred mode of communication — to slam the lawmakers, calling those who couldn't return to Albany because of previously - scheduled vacations «brazen», adding: «That's why you should have passed the budget in June.»

Part of that, is that the Governor is widely seen as victorious over a bitterly partisan GOP majority in the House, which for the first time in the state's history, failed to pass a budget in the regular session, even though it enjoyed only a one - vote majority.

Lawmakers had been passing the budget in pieces for several months, amid a stalemate with Gov. David A. Paterson.

Neither house of Congress is required to pass a budget, and in particular, it is not necessary to pass a budget in order to pass the appropriations bills.

But lawmakers want to pass a budget in time for the Jewish Passover, which begins Friday at sunset, or Christian Easter, which is Sunday.

So, when they brought the MTEF, we said that we will subject it to critical analyses and not rubber stamp it and then it was in the media that National Assembly should be blamed for not passing the budget in time, I responded by telling them they brought empty documents.

Once again, the Florida Legislature has failed to pass a budget in 60 days due in no small part to their «win at any cost» high - stakes Game of Thrones process.

Not exact matches

One option, cited by Italian newspaper La Republicca, is where the main two parties Lega and M5S agree to allow for an interim technocratic government that would modify the electoral law and pass the budget, with the view to return to elections back in October.

The president and the AHCA's supporters in Congress claim that they can not eliminate the mandates under the constraints of «budget reconciliation» procedures required to pass the bill in the Senate.

«There is major uncertainty in the market and federal agencies are not sure until the budget is passed and sequestration is resolved that they will continue, and they have really reduced the scale of work,» says Zia Islam, founder of Zantech IT Services, a McLean, Virginia - based company that has worked for NASA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and other federal agencies.

However, even as the SBA hopes that Congress can pass a bill to fund the government beyond midnight, it has filed a plan with the White House Office of Management and Budget outlining its strategy in the case of a government shutdown.

To pass the AHCA in the Senate, the Republicans need to deploy «reconciliation,» an expedited budget process that requires just 50 votes, instead of the 60 needed to prevent a filibuster.

It calls for one full - time employee to assist the panel's work, a position that Allen said he expects to be funded in the budget that will be passed later in the year.

The federal government has secured opposition support to pass one of the most substantial budget packages since the Coalition took office in 2013, making trade - offs on renewable energy funding and welfare payments to pick up about $ 6 billion in savings.

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.

Trump's tax plan, if it passes, may free up some cash in the typical household's monthly budget.

If the Senate's immigration - reform bill passed the House, it would result in a directly related Gross Domestic Product increase of 3.3 percent by 2023 and 5.4 percent by 2033, the report says, based on Congressional Budget Office estimates.

Under a continuing resolution passed last week in place of actual federal spending bills, Pentagon budgets are capped at 2015 levels, severely limiting the service branches» ability to start new programs or even shutdown programs they don't need anymore.

«Since [Carl's Jr. founder] Mr. Karcher passed away, CKE has tightened its budgets in such a way that it makes it impossible to do the jobs without working off the clock,» McDonald said.

If the supercommittee's bill is not passed by Dec. 23, cuts to entitlement programs kick in automatically — a not undesirable result for extreme budget hawks.

«Republicans in the House passed the Ryan budget plan — twice, in 2011 and 2012 — and they all for re-election on that,» he says.

What we didn't anticipate was that other factors, including bad weather and other hiccups in commodities markets, would drive up the price of food in much of the U.S., increasing restaurants» costs at a time when they couldn't easily pass those costs through to budget - conscious diners.

Christie vowed to make his broader tax cut proposal a campaign issue after failing to pass a tax credit plan in the latest budget.

On Wednesday, a presidential palace source told Reuters President Sergio Mattarella wants a new government in place to pass the 2019 budget.

Republicans want to use a procedure known as budget reconciliation to pass eventual tax legislation, which allows passage with a simple majority in the 100 - seat Senate.

Trump's tax plan, if it passes, will free up a little cash in the typical household's monthly budget.

In the wee hours of Thursday morning, the U.S. Senate passed a budget resolution that now formally kicks off the Obamacare repeal process in a 51 - 48 votIn the wee hours of Thursday morning, the U.S. Senate passed a budget resolution that now formally kicks off the Obamacare repeal process in a 51 - 48 votin a 51 - 48 vote.

The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.

Policymakers have passed 20 budget reconciliation bills since they first used the procedure in 1980.

Senators in Madrid are expected to pass legislation on Friday allowing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to seize control of everything from the insurgent region's budget to its police force and state - run media.

This is the same strategy then - President George W. Bush used to pass his tax cuts under budget reconciliation in 2001, essentially getting around the Byrd deficit restriction by making the tax cuts temporary.

The tense negotiations over Greece's debt come as the Greek government struggles to find a consensus to pass the budget reforms demanded by its so - called troika of lenders — the European Central Bank, European Union and International Monetary Fund — in exchange for releasing the next installment of bailout money, a 30 billion euro ($ 38.3 billion) payout scheduled to be released in March.

This view was expressed in Bill C - 59, the recently passed Budget Omnibus Bill, which included legislation that would require future government's to maintain balanced budgets.

By passing May 31st without a budget in place, the task of approving a budget has become even more difficult.

Controversial reforms Greece promised to pass into law by Wednesday include reforming the VAT system, overhauling pensions and signing up to plans that ensure immediate spending cuts in the event of breaching creditor - mandated budget targets.

With a slim majority in the Senate, the party chose to use «budget reconciliation» — a process that allows a bill to pass with only 50 votes (plus Vice President Mike Pence) but comes with restrictions that make it less than ideal for complex policymaking — to pass their plan.

The federal government recorded a budget deficit of $ 215.2 billion in February, up significantly from a year ago as the impact of the GOP tax cuts passed in December begin to surface.

«We're making progress, but the pace of change in the private sector is so great and the pace of change in government is so slow, even to get a budget passed, let alone get a turnaround in the fiscal situation,» said Joe Brennan, president of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, a lobbying group.

The so - called Rohrabacher - Farr amendment was passed as part of the broader resolution on the federal budget — and it could get tangled up once more in the upcoming fight over federal spending.

On June 6 Finance Minister Jim Flaherty reintroduced his spring federal budget, which was never passed in the rush to an election, with a key twist: Flaherty added a measure to phase out the $ 2 - per - vote subsidy to political parties by 2015 - 16.

Until the Federal government can pass a budget (they haven't in almost four years), remove the 7 - year long ZIRP which penalizes savers and rewards debtors, and find a way to eventually remove the excess QEs and > $ 1 trillion annual spending deficits, I will stay on the porch while the «big dogs» run.

In a story buried in the business section of the February 18th NY Times, it was reported that the spending budget passed by Congress included a provision that creates a 16 - member bipartisan congressional committee to craft legislation that would provide for the potential bailout of as many as 200 multi-employer» pension planIn a story buried in the business section of the February 18th NY Times, it was reported that the spending budget passed by Congress included a provision that creates a 16 - member bipartisan congressional committee to craft legislation that would provide for the potential bailout of as many as 200 multi-employer» pension planin the business section of the February 18th NY Times, it was reported that the spending budget passed by Congress included a provision that creates a 16 - member bipartisan congressional committee to craft legislation that would provide for the potential bailout of as many as 200 multi-employer» pension plans.

The tax reform bill they are pushing through the Senate will live and die by a complicated rule — known as the «Byrd Rule,» a condition of the «budget reconciliation» process that allows Republicans to pass legislation with only 51 votes in the Senate.

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 timeIn 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 timein effect, Congress has managed to pass all required appropriations bills on time only four times.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

It's four months behind in passing a budget, has resorted to issuing IOUs to state lottery winners of prizes over $ 600, and can't pay its bills from agencies that help the poor.