Sentences with phrase «spending bill approved»

There's good news for veterinarians in the spending bill approved Friday by Congress and the president.

The federal Race to the Top program would be renewed for another year under a spending bill approved today by the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that deals with education spending - but wouldn't receive nearly as much money as President Barack Obama has sought...

The federal Race to the Top program would be renewed for another year under a spending bill approved today by the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that deals with education spending — but wouldn't receive nearly as much money as President Barack Obama has sought.

A spending bill approved by a House Appropriations subcommittee this week includes $ 3.5 million to reimburse airports and related businesses that are affected by the temporary flight...

The Bush administration released a fiscal year 2008 budget request today that includes new money to help struggling schools and a renewed push to retool high schools, but would provide less money overall for the U.S. Department of Education than a fiscal year 2007 spending bill approved by the House last week.

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

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) research programs would remain essentially flat under a 2015 spending bill approved today by the U.S. House of Representatives.

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

Conferees to the Energy and Water spending bill approved funding for three of the centers, two in energy efficiency and renewable energy and one in nuclear energy.

• 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 2018 spending bill approved by Congress this week gives a slight but meaningful boost to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) research accounts — including its competitive grants program for universities and other institutions.

• A spending bill approved in March included an amendment by Senator Tom Coburn (R - OK) that, for political science proposals to NSF, effectively adds a third review criterion to the usual two (scientific merit and broader impacts).

That worldview is reflected in a $ 51 billion spending bill approved by the House on 4 June to fund NSF, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and several other federal agencies.

NASA and the US National Science Foundation would see their budgets rise in fiscal year 2015 under a $ 1.1 trillion spending bill approved by the US Congress.

The $ 1.1 trillion spending bill approved by the Senate Saturday includes emergency funding and dozens of policy riders that will affect policy throughout the government.

A spending bill approved by Congress and Trump includes nearly $ 90 billion for disaster relief, with $ 2.36 billion aimed at assisting the agriculture industry for losses from Hurricane Irma in Florida, Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Solar panel installations will get another five - years of tax credit under the massive tax and spending bill approved in Congress last week.

They get major policy and spending bills approved or killed, and help Democrats and Republicans get elected to the Legislature.

Not exact matches

Republicans in Congress are refusing to approve a temporary spending bill, demanding changes or elimination of Obama's 2010 health care law.

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

Faced with the possible third government shutdown, Congress has five days to approve a $ 1.2 trillion spending bill that would provide the greatest increase in years.

The Big Big Boom comes from the fact that the bill is financed entirely by deficit spending — approved by the Right as well as the Left.

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

Hammond said his members were upset Trump had approved a spending bill that included background check updates.

The White House ultimately dropped the demand that the legislation include wall funding, and a coalition of Republicans and Democrats approved a bill in May that looked similar to spending measures that had been supported by the Obama administration.

The U.S. Senate approved on a spending bill worth $ 1.3 trillion early Friday morning.

Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal 2015 spending bill with controversial language, drafted by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - AL), which would allow struggling schools to request a 12 - month waiver from complying with healthier school food standards.

Cuomo approved what was widely considered to be the ethics bill of the legislative session, a measure designed to address the Citizens United era of super PAC political spending, as well new requirements for lobbyists and consultants.

State lawmakers do appear to be close to locking down the budget, with the state Assembly already approving one budget bill this evening — the public protection and general government portion of the spending plan.

Despite the contentious measures in the bill for Senate Republicans such as the wage increase, the spending plan was approved 61 to 1, with only Sen. Simcha Felder voting against it.

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.

In the first case, the Legislature passed then - governor George Pataki's appropriation bills and then sought to amend them after the fact, not changing the amount of money that had been approved, but altering the purposes for and conditions under which that money could be spent.

A state government shutdown was averted after the state Legislature approved an emergency spending bill late Monday with the help of three Republican state senators.

If approved, the funding would be on top of the $ 243 million the Rome Lab received in the latest federal spending bill.

Cuomo went on to allow that Paterson is in a «desperate» situation with the budget more than two months late, and thus has had to resort to a «desperate tactic» of insisting that the Legislature choose between approving extender bills that include cuts (in this case, cuts to health care spending) and a government shutdown.

Once approved, those spending plans result in taxation that accounts for more than 65 percent of property owners» tax bills.

The final night of voting included some mini-drama — Democrats from Westchester fought for a sales tax increase in Yonkers as well as new hotel levies, and chamber leaders took the rare step of calling off a bill during voting because it lacked support — but was mostly spent approving an omnibus bill for outstanding housing and education issues.

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday approved a final defense authorization bill, legislation that has generated its share of drama this year, paving the way for an increase in defense spending in Connecticut and the nation.

Instead, Congress and the president have approved a series of short - term spending bills known as «continuing resolutions.»

The spending that was included in the extender bill — including the special project money — was subsequently approved in other budget legislation.

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.

The City Council approved a bill this afternoon expanding - animal protection services, with one dissenter saying it was done rapidly and in a cynical spirit in order to prevent a damaging lawsuit which could have forced the city to spend $ 50 million immediately.

Bonacic said there's talk of approving a one - month - long temporary spending bill, to last until early May.

Cuomo, gave his final approval to the spending bill that was approved by state lawmakers last month, at a bill signing ceremony before an auditorium of high school students in Queens.

He must spell out immediately his entire plan for enacting spending cuts in a series of weekly bills that are generally used to maintain state operations in the absence of a fully approved budget.

Risking default rather than pay the nation's bills for spending already authorized — and which they themselves approved.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled an $ 89.06 billion executive budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year on Thursday, decrying new spending that the city must undertake to meet shortfalls and unfunded mandates imposed by the new state budget approved last month, and cautioning of federal actions that could affect the city's fiscal future.

As negotiations dragged on, the Senate and Assembly each spent their second - to - last day at the Capitol approving dozens of bills.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday called for Washington to approve a $ 10 billion Medicaid waiver to help save struggling Brooklyn hospitals, even as federal officials said that's not how the money should be spent.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday revealed an $ 82.1 billion preliminary spending plan, including federal and state aid for the coming fiscal year — a $ 3.5 billion overall spending increase from the $ 78.5 billion budget plan approved by the City Council last June for the current fiscal year.