Sentences with phrase «spending federal money»

But none of these family planning programs pay for abortion care, which the law already prohibits spending federal money on.

If they can't meet that bar, their flexibility for spending federal money is limited.

The Student Success Act would give states and school districts more control over spending federal money and remove federal requirements that states set goals for student achievement.

76 percent of voters support the idea of spending federal money on early childhood education.

The U.S. Congress forced NASA to wash its hands of SETI in 1993 after some congressmen mocked the whole idea of spending federal money to look for «little green men with misshapen heads,» as one of them put it.

In a setback to President Barack Obama's health care law, a federal judge ruled that the administration is unconstitutionally spending federal money to fund the measure without approval from Congress.

Over at the White House Office of Management and Budget, Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters in March that spending federal money on climate science is «a waste of your money.»

Moen noted Sessions» action doesn't change federal law, which includes a congressional provision barring authorities from spending federal money to prosecute medical marijuana operations that abide by state laws.

There are also a lot more ways to increase ones wealth in congress than just the salary as well, congress members have the ability to spend federal money on what they see fit so they can help their friends out and get kickbacks, though they have to be careful and do this indirectly because it is technically illegal.

With President Donald Trump pledging to spend federal money to send students to private schools, FutureEd took at look at the private school choice programs now in place at the state level.

In fact, one reason why AYP was created was to finally bring some check and balance to how school districts and states spent federal money after decades of getting so much cash and showing no results for it.

Not exact matches

The federal government's housing strategy will help some people, but it will do nothing to alter price dynamics, especially as the money will be spent over a decade.

If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

In her announcement, Gillibrand criticized the 2010 Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, which ruled that the government should not regulate the amount of money corporations and unions can spend on campaigns.

Trump called for $ 200 billion in federal money intended to spur at least $ 1.5 trillion in state and local infrastructure spending.

Sept. 30 marks the final day of fiscal year 2015 and members of Congress are working to pass a bill that would allow U.S. federal agencies to continue spending money, thus avoiding the second federal government shutdown in two years.

Federal Election Commission records show that these groups, as well as five other grant recipients of Crossroads GPS, spent money on political ads, directly or indirectly, in the 2010 election cycle.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending will reach small firms, either directly in federal contracts or indirectly as this money makes its way through the economy.

Federal coffers are set to dole out $ 186.7 billion in infrastructure money over the next 12 years, but the most recent federal budget indicated about one - quarter of planned spending between 2016 and 2019 was being moved to futureFederal coffers are set to dole out $ 186.7 billion in infrastructure money over the next 12 years, but the most recent federal budget indicated about one - quarter of planned spending between 2016 and 2019 was being moved to futurefederal budget indicated about one - quarter of planned spending between 2016 and 2019 was being moved to future years.

The Canadian Media Guild (which also represents unionized workers at The Canadian Press) worries the new money from the federal government wasn't a reinvestment in the CBC so much as spending on companies producing CBC programming.

This decision probably shouldn't have been a surprise, because it basically said that the court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, upholding the right of corporations to spend money in federal elections, applies to the states as well.

But another federal law says that the Part B premium must raise enough money to cover one - fourth of expected spending on doctors» services.

In the months that followed, the industry persuaded Georgia Congressman Tom Graves, whose district includes the syndication hotbed of Rome, to slip a rider into the federal appropriations bill that would bar the IRS from spending money to enforce the listing notice.

The federal government's going to spend a lot of money that supports the overall economy in a way that we haven't seen for a number of years,» Warne told Yahoo Finance.

«By contrast, federal tax law permits 501 (c)(4) organizations to spend money advocating the election or defeat of candidates, so long as such activity isn't the 501 (c)(4) organization's «primary» activity.

The New York Times covered the exciting news that the federal government has met its goal of awarding 5 percent of money spent on contractors to women - owned businesses.

Don't give money to corporate welfare programs, no to negative income tax, just make new jobs with Federal spending instead.

Census data, in part, determines where federal money is spent and how congressional districts are drawn.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

For perspective, that's more money than the group spent in all federal campaigns during the 2014 election cycle combined.

While other provinces, most recently Ontario, and the federal government have moved to take big money out of politics, the Christy Clark government has not only said no to banning union and corporate donations, and no to municipal election spending limits — it has moved to eliminate pre-election spending limits in the 60 days prior to an election.

Before this, the publicly - owned Bank of Canada had a mandate and practice of lending interest - free money to federal, provincial, and municipal governments for infrastructure and healthcare spending;

During that time, Paine and his crew captured the ups and downs of electric vehicles» development amid the Great Recession — when GM went bankrupt and its executives made the blunder of flying to Washington, D.C., in private jets to seek federal bailout money; when Tesla Motors almost missed payroll, having built only 100 cars and spent $ 100 million; and when Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn was grilled by the press about the $ 6 billion gamble he was taking on the Leaf.

If this means that the Government of Canada is just to transfer money without conditions to provinces, that does not help matters much at all, because for any given level of federal spending there will still be debilitating tax competition between the provinces.

Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis that shows the federal government may not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.

The Federal Reserve is pursuing an easy money policy, to offset the federal spending cuts that would otherwide become an economic drag (and might still be a drag — we don't knoFederal Reserve is pursuing an easy money policy, to offset the federal spending cuts that would otherwide become an economic drag (and might still be a drag — we don't knofederal spending cuts that would otherwide become an economic drag (and might still be a drag — we don't know yet).

The willingness of President Bush (in his better moments) to spend money to shore up civil society — making it perhaps less necessary to spend money down the road, as the promise of the «ownership society» was fulfilled — was taken as an opportunity by those not invested in that «limited» project (I have in mind here both the conventional Republicans in the Bush White House and the pork - barrelling Republicans in the House and Senate) to open the federal purse with relative abandon.

That law barred dedicated political - advocacy groups from soliciting and spending soft money — funds that aren't subject to tight federal campaign - contribution limits and are used for issue advocacy and party - building...

Art Schlichter, NFL quarterback Has spent four of the past six years in prison on various charges; currently in Marion County Jail, Indianapolis, awaiting trial on federal charges of money laundering.

It undermines the federal nutrition standards for meals if students spend their money on unhealthy options.

The federal government spends more money on dairy products than any other food item in the school lunch program.

Shows like Jamie Oliver's «Food Revolution,» and school districts like Chef Ann Cooper's former district in Berkeley, CA and current district in Boulder, CO, are often held up as examples of what's possible in school food reform, yet it's seldom ever mentioned that in each of these cases, far more money is being spent on those meals than the current federal reimbursement rate — and far more than that rate plus six cents.

That's a very tall order, especially when resources are scarce (most schools get, in the end, about $ 1 from the federal government to spend on school food) and there is no money in the budget for food / nutrition education.

The federal government has approved New York City's plan to spend the first $ 1.77 billion in aid for Hurricane Sandy recovery, with the money expected to start flowing by early summer to homeowners, businesses and others in need.

The omnibus spending bill now on the congressional launch pad is a something - for - everyone grab bag that contains a surprising amount of federal money for New York priorities, including rural broadband, the fight against opioidaddiction, and highway, rail and airport improvements.

In the month preceding the election, Obama spent more money, $ 100m (# 63m), than McCain's Federal allowance of $ 84m ($ 52m).

The state budget includes no significant new controls or oversight on how the Cuomo administration spends money on economic development projects, and that troubles many lawmakers after federal prosecutors accused eight men of bid - rigging schemes in earlier development projects.

As such, if 100 % of campaign money raised was spent as part of the federal budget, it would cover less that 0.1 % (1 / 1000th) of said budget, even if we only cover «important spending on the people» and not entire budget.

My priorities will be to slash wasteful federal spending, set our nation on a path to a balanced budget, end bailouts for bad business decisions, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit, and repeal Obamacare.

During the last three election cycles, 30 % or more of the outside spending on federal elections came from dark money groups.