Sentences with phrase «rules on public spending»

That is bad enough, but rules on public spending make matters even worse.

Not exact matches

By constantly looking backwards, and spending limited resources on streamlining old rules, agencies will have too little time to look forward and plan future rulemakings to protect the public.

In a recent op - ed in the Edmonton Journal, Public Interest Alberta «s Larry Booi called on the new NDP government to institute campaign spending limits, lower contribution limits to $ 1,200 per year, impose much stronger rules on disclosure of contributions and spending and extend the rules on contributions and spending to cover party leadership and constituency contests.

For example Germany has no limits on campaign spending, but also has strict rules on transparency, and generous public funding of political parties in order to level the playing field.

The Committee to Save New York has made public, under state lobbying disclosure rules, that they've spent over $ 12 million dollars on advertising and other promotions of Governor Cuomo's policy agenda, including a property tax cap and budget cuts.

Senate majority spokesman Scott Reif said it was the Democrats» own rules, enacted when they held the majority a year ago, that restricts spending on public hearings.

The appointees «will focus exclusively on rooting out abuse and fraud by public officials so that New Yorkers can have confidence that taxpayer dollars are being spent wisely and everyone is playing by the same set of rules,» he said.

Depending on how the conservative - leaning court rules, the case could have a significant impact on the organizing and spending efforts by public - sector labor groups.

The brief ruling says the Empire Center, which has complied all manner of public spending records on its website See Through NY, failed to make a «persuasive argument» as to why the information should be released.

The chancellor's much tighter tax - and - spending rules aim to generate a surplus on the public finances by the end of the parliament in 2020, even once spending on investment projects is taken into account.

«Instead public money should be spent for the public benefit and focussed on control of compliance with management rules, data collection, scientific research and stock assessments.»

But constraints on public spending ruled this out, the minister said.

Hounded by public pressure, the Illinois House used a one - day special session last week to pass a broad school reform bill that raises spending on poor students and amends teacher - licensing rules.

These rules are incorporated in a «Directive» which, converted into legal obligations in the UK through Regulations, place particular duties and responsibilities on all public spending contracting authorities which the UK courts can enforce.

Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public - school funding, the United States now spends more per student on K - 12 education than almost any other country.

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the state's low spending on public education violated the state's constitution.

It ruled that school districts should provide public charters with 98 percent of the amount spent on a student in that district.

Nearly 60 years after the 1954 landmark ruling in Brown v. the Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared public education is «a right which must be made available on equal terms,» racial inequities in school spending persist.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has given Los Angeles Unified a one - year reprieve from a ruling requiring the district to spend potentially hundreds of millions of additional dollars on English learners and low - income children to comply with the state's new school funding law.

While the federal contribution to the $ 634 billion spent in the U.S. on public K - 12 schools is only about 8 %, that will be a tempting target for future deficit hawks and legislators boxed in by spending rules.

While it is possible to speculate in many ways as to why this is so rare, some insight may be found in a 2013 letter from David Schraver, the President of the New York State Bar Association to Jonathan Lippman, then Chief Judge of the State of New York: Objecting to a newly adopted rule that required New York attorneys merely to report the number of hours they spent on pro bono work (without imposing any minimum number of required hours), Schraver wrote that «the provision of legal services to the poor is a public responsibility.»

If you're superstitious, you can avoid being drenched in court or tripping over the Green Book on Friday 13 June 2008 by spending a half day watching the Civil Procedure Rules Committee changing the law as it opens itself to public scrutiny in central London.

For public safety and environmental reasons, the Alberta Energy Regulator has specific «end - of - life» rules on how a spent well must be rendered environmentally safe by being shut - in and «abandoned».

The Prime Minister also shared that he often gave this advice to new members of parliament who had families and faced work / life challenges: «It is possible in your busy life, in public life, to spend time with your family and friends... the first rule is you ring your wife or husband twice a day, and when you are at home, you spend your time with your kids, you don't spend all your time on the phone or your head buried in papers.»