Sentences with phrase «spending bill»

The Silver plan also eliminates the governor's existing legal authority to insert policy language in spending bills, giving up a crucial power of the governor while offering little in return.

And that concern found its way into a report accompanying a 2018 spending bill approved by the full committee earlier this month.

After several attempts to craft information - sharing legislation, the latest one has found its way into the must - pass federal spending bill.

Lawmakers could pass a short - term spending bill that would keep the government open in the interim, perhaps another week, while a longer - term measure is finalized.

The massive spending bill also includes several policy and tax provisions.

Lawmakers are trying to sneak provisions that threaten our air, water and wildlife into urgent government spending bills.

We need to give the public the opportunity to review, discuss and express its opinions on this massive spending bill before a vote is cast.

Some omitted portions, like the precise amount of state aid to public schools will be revived in the final spending bill.

It is increasingly rare for legislative bodies to enact spending bills much in advance of this date.

Those earlier spending bills are expected to form the basis for a final agreement.

The annual spending bill decides how the government will fund all federal programs for the upcoming year.

Most tabs cover the major funding accounts and programs by agency, and also include basic information on spending bill progress.

They have just been continuing to pass continuing resolutions and additional spending bills.

A final transportation spending bill is expected by the end of the week.

The data for each account will be regularly updated over the course of the summer and into fall, as different spending bills move through the process and more data comes to light.

The language has appeared in similar forms in previous spending bills the last few years, due to pressure from lawmakers in forest - heavy states.

Two programs that support first responders who became sick because of 9/11 are going to be included in the latest federal spending bill.

There are three options with a government spending bill.

That lobbying led to the inclusion of a baseball wage provision in an otherwise unrelated and massive spending bill.

On the wildlife front, advocates are thrilled with what they didn't see in the final spending bill.

US House leadership is currently putting together its omnibus spending bill for FY 2018.

Lawmakers hope to approve a must - pass spending bill on Thursday as the clock ticks toward potential government shutdown this weekend.

The state congress passed a pair of emergency spending bills on Monday to halt that, keeping essential services funded, like schools.

Two years ago, the Obama administration and congressional Republicans struck a deal on overall spending levels that helped ease passage of spending bills for 2014 and 2015.

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The good news is that though Title IV had been targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, congress rebuffed the administration by giving a big boost to the block grants in the federal omnibus spending bill signed into law March 23.

Tucked away on one of the 2,232 pages of the omnibus spending bill Congress sent to President Donald Trump's desk early Friday morning is a provision to ban federal funding for a group called the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.

© Kevin Lamarque President Donald Trump pats Congress» $ 1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill with Vice President Mike Pence and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross at his side at the White House on Friday.

Cuomo has focused his ire on the two GOP congressmen from that area, Rep. Chris Collins and Rep. Tom Reed, both of whom voted in favor of the House spending bill which paved the way for the tax bill.

But the state congress passed a pair of emergency spending bills on Monday to halt that, keeping essential services funded, like schools.

Congress has averted a government shutdown on 4 March by approving a temporary spending bill today that funds federal agencies for another 2 weeks.

WASHINGTON, March 21 - A federal spending bill released late on Wednesday included bipartisan legislation that would amend a decades - old privacy law to clarify that a U.S. warrant seeking data stored overseas is valid in certain circumstances.

Here's what services are «essential» and would continue if the government fails to pass a new spending bill by Friday, USA Today reports.

The House approved a stopgap spending bill last night to keep the government open past today, but Senate Democrats — angered by President Trump's vulgar aspersions and a lack of progress on a broader budget and immigration deal — appeared ready to block the measure.

September 30, 2013 • As the U.S. government braces for a shutdown, the Senate voted Monday to reject amendments to a stopgap spending bill passed by the House of Representatives that would have delayed the healthcare law for a year and repeal a tax on medical devices, and returned a «clean» continuing resolution that would keep the government open until Nov. 15 — and leave Obamacare intact — to the House.

The Trump administration's fiscal 2018 budget would provide the Army Corps with roughly $ 5 billion, down from the omnibus spending bill funding of over $ 6 billion.

And Congress approved a bipartisan spending bill which includes a $ 9 million increase for the federal Charter Schools Program.

A major defense spending bill passed by the US Senate yesterday calls for a blockchain study, public records show.

• Last Friday on ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser reported that «Congress took a small step toward expanding a requirement that science agencies make federally funded research papers publicly available,» in the form of a 1 - year provision found on page 1020 of the 1582 - page spending bill approved last week.

The House spending bill contains a $ 94 million or 1.6 percent increase for NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD); individual account levels within SMD will be known when the panel releases its report to accompany the bill text.

The congressional spending bill signed by the President on March 23 directs the FDA to take action agains...

A $ 76 million renovation at the Buffalo VA Medical Center could be in the works soon, thanks to the bipartisan spending bill Congress passed recently, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

An amendment to a major military spending bill before the House would rescind a 2007 federal law barring the Defense Department from using alternative fuels, like synthetic oil made from coal, that produce more climate - altering pollution than conventional fuels.

People who battle sea lampreys are happy with the big spending bill President Trump signed on Friday.

Now that an overall budget deal has been reached, progressives must hold fast and ensure that the impending spending bill does not become an opportunity for Trump and the GOP to gut crucial EPA programs.

Time spent on non-billable could be time spent billings, or time with their families.

The Senate had expected to pass an education, labor, and health and human services spending bill with few changes to its $ 32 billion in education provisions, but it was sidetracked by several health and labor amendments.