Sentences with phrase «priority over your bills»

Sure, it's fun to treat yourself to a new outfit or movie now and then, but these purchases should not take priority over your bills.

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That bill would extend current federal spending into December, allowing time for further negotiations over key GOP priorities — including the Mexican border wall demanded by Trump.

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

The bill, a priority for the president and first lady Michelle Obama, would boost spending on child nutrition $ 4.5 billion over 10 years and raise federal reimbursements for school lunches more than the inflation rate for the first time since 1973.

There are already, new National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable (NASSBER) research findings projecting that our priority bills will have an output impact equivalent to an average of 6.87 per cent of GDP over a five - year period on the economy.

The bill will also support the regeneration and delivery of new social and affordable housing, identified as a key government priority in July as Gordon Brown stepped over the threshold at No 10.

With time running out, Congress today easily approved a short - term spending bill that would prevent a partial federal government shutdown over the weekend, but departed in advance of the president's first 100 day milestone (tomorrow) with addressing two of his top policy priorities: health care and a year - long budget deal.

After keeping largely silent as his priorities for New York City in Albany withered over the last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio today ripped Gov. Andrew Cuomo, accusing him of seeking «revenge» for perceived political slights by stymieing progress on key issues.

It is notable that the most important issue of the moment - economic stability - features lowest in the ranking of contested bills, while the most irrelevant issue in terms of voters» priorities, constitutional reform, is expected to be the most heavily fought - over.

Van Bramer, who chairs the Council's cultural affairs committee, where the debate over library funding has largely been heard, reminded of the Council's budget priorities as final negotiations take place between the 51 - member legislative body and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Earlier this morning, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, whose top counsel Jim Yates has been involved in negotiations on the marijuana bill, said the governor's concerns over keeping the drug out of the wrong hands were a priority in negotiations.

Also over the weekend, Flanagan introduced a bill that would make the 2 percent tax cap permanent — a top priority for the Senate GOP's conservative and business allies.

Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz found a new and politically expedient way to attack Mayor Bill de Blasio over space issues for her charter schools on Thursday by casting doubt on his worthiness to maintain mayoral control of the city's schools, perhaps his administration's most urgent priority in Albany.

With one exception, the Democratic dissenters seemed to have no animus towards the wood frog, but they expressed a great deal of frustration over the Republican majority's priorities as the bill came up for discussion 41 hours after the expiration of rent regulations.

This bill is the first salvo in what could turn out to be a highly partisan debate over NASA's priorities.

All that changed when the GOP took over Congress in November's elections, committee chairs Senator Alexander and Representative Kline made clear ESEA reauthorization was a priority, and vote counters deduced that the right bill could attract widespread support.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, who will be taking over the Senate's education committee, has declared an NCLB update his top priority, and he wants to attack the issue fast, potentially having a bill up for debate before the end of January.

Over the summer, the committee approved the first three bills in this series: the Setting New Priorities in Education Spending Act (H.R. 1891), the Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act (H.R. 2218), and the State and Local Funding Flexibility Act (H.R. 2445).

You should always make taxes a priority over non-essential bills or payments you can make later.

Whether that means keeping your balance (s) at a manageable level, setting up automatic payments, only charging one or two tiny amounts — cup of coffee or your Netflix bill, for example — or all of the above, make a perfect payment history over multiple accounts your top priority.

Our readers, over 1.2 million last year, were helpful in achieving passage of the Military Dog Retirement Act in the National Defense Authorization Bill giving first adoption priority to civilian Law Enforcement Agencies, then to prior military handlers, and finally to the general public.

Initially drafted in 2003 with the support and input of NGOs, the bill had been changed so much by the time it first arrived in parliament in 2010 that 73 leading civil - society organizations said it would «open the door for irreversible destructions [of] the country's nature» by allowing land uses such as mining, urbanization, tourism facilities, dam construction, and other forms of energy development to have priority over protection.

In a move that may derail a comprehensive climate change and energy bill in the Senate, one of the measure's central architects, Senator Lindsey Graham, has issued an angry protest over what he says are Democratic plans to give priority to a debate over immigration policy.

Moreover, just as was the case with cap and trade legislation, other issues, including immigration, gun control, income inequality, banking regulation, and revisions to the health care bill may take top legislative priority over climate change.

The Ag Committee has some jurisdiction over climate change legislation, and Lincoln's vote on cap - and - trade is a priority for her caucus leadership, which is having a tough time finding support for a climate bill among Senate Democrats.

The firm's executive, themselves normally billing lawyers, place stability in the short term as a higher priority over innovation.

The supremacy principle is that when the domestic law of a member state conflicts with EU law, it is EU law that takes priority: «From an EU law perspective, the principle is an uncompromising one: the CJEU [Court of Justice] has confirmed that EU law has priority over all forms of domestic law, including provisions found in Member States» constitutions and in constitutional bills of rights.»