Sentences with phrase «rules in the spending bill»

The addition of the new rules in the spending bill came after 53 members of Congress issued a letter to the House Appropriations Committee, urging them to cut taxpayer money for canine medical research under the new spending bill.

Not exact matches

Pay - as - you - go rules (often called PAYGO) covered the rest of the budget: changes to mandatory spending and revenues could not together increase the deficit in any bill when pay - as - you - go rules were enforced.

But based on conversations I'd had with a source on the Hill, I noted in my last post on «pizza = vegetable» that the battle was lost but the war was not necessarily over: the agricultural spending bill which gutted the pizza rule will expire at the end of the current fiscal year, i.e, September, 2012, creating an opportunity to revisit the issue.

As I reported here back in March, House lawmakers were able to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on two important new school food requirements: an increase in fruit served at breakfast and the implementation of the widely lauded «Smart Snacks in School» rules.

Among his responses: condemning Bill de Blasio for «hypocrisy» in criticizing the court ruling allowing expanded independent expenditure funding but benefiting from such spending, including a reported $ 1 million ad buy by the United Federation of Teachers.

When Republicans took the House in 2011, they replaced the House rule with one that placed no restrictions on revenue provisions that increase deficits but prohibited reconciliation instructions that would produce a net increase in mandatory spending, regardless of the reconciliation bill's overall impact on deficits.

In the omnibus spending bill approved last month, Congress required the department to release the rules before Dec. 1.

Our recommendation is that we should abandon the sky - is - falling and phantom job loss tactic, and lobby the administration with several «asks,» that could include: MLP / REIT status for solar companies; fast - track permitting; reducing environmental studies; tax - free manufacturing zones in the interest of U.S. national security and to revitalize certain cities; a revision of accounting rules that penalize solar project owners; federal policy allowing net metering for homeowners and community solar projects; including solar in the upcoming infrastructure spending bill; and finally increased PV deployment on federal buildings.