Sentences with phrase «spending items»

Voters approved major spending items in several states in last week's elections.

Spending items as small as $ 2 per day in vending machine purchases quickly add up to nearly $ 500 per year for the average employee.

Even if paying taxes or rent with a card, these are big - ticket spend items that can lead to earning lots of miles and points.

ALBANY — Gov. Paterson unleashed a veritable veto - palooza yesterday — slashing thousands of spending items from the Legislature's $ 136 billion budget — even as Senate Democrats skipped town without passing a vital tax bill needed to finish off the spending plan.

New spending items include $ 36 million for a plan to expand pre-K to 3 - year - olds as well as funding to install air - conditioning units in thousands of public - school classrooms.

The Governor has claimed to have kept SOF spending growth to 2 percent or less in every year of his tenure.2 However, for the second year in a row, the budget remains within this limit because (1) items previously categorized as state operating spending have been shifted to «off budget» accounts; (2) cash disbursements have been shifted between fiscal years; and (3) other spending items have been reclassified.3

The remit could include in particular major fiscal spending items and elements essential for the country's competitiveness.

The search engine even factors in the cost of holiday spending items, such as wine, taxis and food, helping you plan spending money as well as travel costs.

Meanwhile, the budget contained $ 350 million community project funds spending items, including $ 330 million that have not been itemized.

That fund includes re-appropriated spending items scuh as $ 285,336 went to the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, a base of support for former Assemblyman Vito Lopez.

«Many of us in the council asked the mayor to identify savings in the budget by asking him to identify his lower - priority spending items,» Garodnick said.

Higgins argued his colleagues across the aisle know the bill will add to the deficit and in order to make up for it will soon come after spending items like Medicare and Social Security.

Lawmakers bristle at negative connotations associated with pork spending; the governor gets far more spending items in the budget that he will tout in the coming months, they note.

Some Syracuse Common Councilors say various spending items should be delayed because of the financial health of the city.

Republican leaders called a meeting of a conference committee on March 9 to remove spending items from the bill.

Delivery of the papers followed Paterson's vetoing last week of 6,681 spending items desired by lawmakers.

The budget includes relatively few major new spending items compared to de Blasio's previous two budgets.

The talks could lead to tricks such as raiding special funds or moving spending items outside of the regular budget, although any new borrowing to pay those operations costs would fall under sharp criticism.

Within days the Republican National Committee had named the grant one of the «Five Most Absurd Spending Items» in Coburn's compendium of «wasteful» federal projects, which include the International Space Station and administrative leave for federal employees.

It is possible that people formulated better answers to this question because they used their own pay (or that of a family member) as benchmarks, while they lacked as much context on the per - pupil spending item.

While such investments were initially restricted to outside of the office environment and often costed as major capital spend items, todays 3D printers cost less than a communications server or a web site update.

These are no longer discretionary spending items: in many businesses, if you don't have a BlackBerry or an iPhone you can't compete.

The biggest single spending item on the Liberal docket is the new Canada Child Benefit that swallows four former benefits — including the universal child care benefit and income splitting — into a single new payment targeting middle and lower income Canadian families.

In order to advance to the next space on the map, players must spend an item called Memoria, which can only be gained as a reward for earning levels.

You can support or oppose these co-payments, but either way they will have relatively little impact on the big health and social policy spending items.

Here are a few examples of how this spending item has increased under Harper:

«I think that right now the discussion has been a lot more on the policy and some one the spending items,» Heastie said Wednesday after meeting with Cuomo for more than an hour.

The state budget is due in 3 1/2 weeks, but the biggest push at the Capitol is for a change that is not a spending item.

And, even though it's not exactly a spending item, the Governor called for legislation to fix the troubled implementation of the new Common Core standards in schools, saying the roll out by the State Board of Regents is «flawed».

Among the spending items spread throughout the pages of the bills is $ 400 million for the second phase of the Buffalo Billion economic development program.

He then vetoed nearly 6,700 spending items that lawmaker had sought, including their pork - barrel allotment.

And, even though it's not exactly a spending item, the Governor called for legislation to fix the troubled implementation of the new Common Core standards in schools, saying the rollout by the State Board of Regents is «flawed.»

Once those spending items were removed, the Senate passed the bill, which still included the curtailing of collective bargaining rights, with no Democrats there.

At the same time, legislative leaders say they want to separate out those unrelated issues, like ethics reform from spending items.

It was a personal - spend item (that didn't break the bank thanks to awesome Kate Spade deals!)

You'll need a few to unlock the next world, but you're also offered additional ways to spend the items you collect.