Sentences with phrase «to keep the government running»

The bills are designed to keep the government running until a new budget, now 74 days late, is reached.

The finish line came just a few hours later, as the Senate voted 65 - 33 in favor of a $ 1.15 trillion omnibus spending bill and companion $ 629 billion tax bill that should keep the government running through September (Greenwire, Dec. 18).

Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein, who had insisted he wouldn't back a budget without raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York to 18 included in it, backed the extender, saying his priority was to keep government running in New York.

He paired the emergency money with structural cuts, loading the bills — each of which kept government running for a week — with farther - reaching measures to correct the deficit, and dared legislators to vote against them, thereby shutting down government.

The White House and House Speaker John Boehner (R) are arguing over just how long to temporarily keep the government running while they negotiate a final budget for 2011.

Senators claimed Cuomo was threatening to send lawmakers an emergency spending bill to temporarily keep the government running if there was no budget deal — but have the short - term authorization run until May.

State law gives the governor broad power to insert language into emergency spending bills that would keep the government running if a budget isn't arrived at through the normal process, essentially allowing him to dare legislators to shut down the government over policy measures of his choice.

«It sounds like what we're headed towards is a glorified extender which keeps the government running, but takes all the major issues out of it,» said Sen. Mike Gianaris, a Queens Democrat who is the deputy leader in the chamber, in a Capital Tonight interview.

«Republicans couldn't keep government running, failed to fund health care for millions of kids, and are forcing 800,000 Dreamers to live in fear of deportation.

At least two Senate Democrats, who up until now have kept government running by voting in favor of weekly budget extenders, are threatening to vote «no» on the next extender bill, which will come before the Senate and Assembly on Monday.

The president's tweet threw more chaos into the process to keep the government running Friday, even after it looked like Trump's signature would be a sure thing.

The continuing resolution keeps the government running until mid-January, while leaving DACA, Obamacare, and Defense spending unaddressed.

His decision to insert a year's worth of his capital funding priorities in a two - month extender the Legislature passed to keep government running gave him all the leverage he needed in the final days of negations.

He was referring to his power of emergency appropriations, budget extender bills that are used to traditionally keep government running while the budget runs late in the Legislature.

The measure is not expected to pass the Senate, and sets up a showdown between House Republicans and the Obama administration on keeping the government running.

State Senate Conference Leader John Sampson, for one, says he'll swallow the furlough if it means keeping the government running.

Instead, in an effort to avert a government showdown, Congress passed and Trump signed into law on Sept. 8 a bill that left final fiscal year 2018 spending levels to be decided in December by keeping the government running at current spending levels until Dec. 8.

The just - passed Fiscal Year 2017 spending bill, which will keep the government running through September 30, largely sustains funding for efficiency standards, advanced research, renewable energy deployment, and other important clean energy initiatives.

It argues, in short, that the governor does not have the power to enact policy through an emergency extender, which — until Paterson — was traditionally used to keep government running in the absence of a budget deal.

In a late - night vote, Senate Democrats joined to block a bill that would have kept the government running until mid-February.

Instead of simply proposing enough spending to keep government running for a couple of weeks while budget negotiations continued, he loaded the bills with take - it - or - leave - it spending cuts.

«Republicans couldn't keep government running, failed to fund health care for millions of kids, and are forcing 800,000 Dreamers to live in fear of deportation,» Cuomo said Monday.

There is hope that Speaker of the House John Boehner's resignation, announced Friday, will help clear the way for a short - term funding bill that would keep the government running through the rest of the calendar year.

Not long thereafter, Citigroup slipped a repeal of the provision into the must - pass spending bill that would keep the government running through this September.

«It's suppose to keep government running.»

Lawmakers on Monday passed extender resolutions to keep the government running through the end of May, but also to fund pretty much all of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development program — not to mention a $ 2.5 billion water infrastructure package that pretty much all sides want — but not contentious issues like education / charter school funding, raise the age and 421 - a.

In short: If there is no budget deal that includes the reforms for which he has called by the April 1 deadline, Cuomo will follow the lead of former Gov. David Paterson and force his plans down the Legislature's throat by inserting his budget into the extender legislation required to keep the government running.

Her campaign issued a statement calling for LaValle to «get off the phone and keep government running,» but it's not clear the voice on the recording is LaValle himself.

The action came as much of the budget, including the appropriations needed to keep the government running, was completed.

So, now they are faced this morning with the task of passing an extender resolution — also sent to them by the governor — to avert a shutdown and keep government running in the short term.

Congress would probably pass a few other necessary bills to keep the government running and then adjourn, since every member of Congress now has a special election to prepare for.

Town Board authorizes borrowing nearly $ 1 million in December 2011 to keep government running until tax revenue comes in.

The deal also capped a day of furious back - and - forth between lawmakers and Mr. Cuomo, who had suggested that a deal on the budget — which would already be the latest of his administration — might take weeks more to broker because emergency budget measures were keeping the government running.

It was Paterson who forced the Legislature to adopt most of the budget through emergency spending bills he put forward to keep government running, the source said.

As governor, Cuomo is not alone in keeping the government running.

The emergency spending bill — which needed to pass in order to keep the government running — included $ 775 million in cuts to Medicaid and other health - care programs.

The humanitarian crisis in Texas and Louisiana due to Hurricane Harvey has the potential to make it easier for Congress to address two contentious issues: raising the debt ceiling and keeping the government running.

DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, says if no agreement is reached on some of the unrelated topics by the budget deadline, lawmakers will likely oppose any attempt by the governor to force through the policy changes in the form of extender bills to keep the government running.

This is necessary to keep the government running.

U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson (R - Kinderhook) voted with the ayes Friday, Sept. 20 as the House of Representatives approved a measure — the «continuing resolution» — that would keep the government running, but defund the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

Lawmakers in both chambers passed the extender budget yesterday to keep the government running until May 31.

Paterson's emergency budget extender to keep the government running was narrowly approved Monday night - and needed help from three Republicans to pass.

But if not, they urged Cuomo to do whatever is necessary to ensure the changes happen this year — including embedding reform language in any budget extenders he sends the Legislature to keep the government running in the absence of a budget.

If the Legislature doesn't enact a budget by Saturday, Gov. Cuomo could submit an extender to keep government running that includes all his plans, forcing pols to accept it or shut down government.

As Congress lurches toward passing a final deal to keep the government running until January 15, researchers across the nation say their work — some of it already compromised by the budget sequestration — will suffer lasting damage as a result of the 16 - day shutdown.

The House had passed a stopgap spending bill late Thursday that would have kept the government running for four weeks if it had been echoed by the Senate, after talks on reaching a budget deal stalled.

As a part of the legislative action to keep the government running, the House and the Senate will be voting today on whether to also include a package with tax credits for EVs.

«While keeping the government running is critical,» the letter states, «lawmakers also need to make sure government funds are used in ways that advance economic recovery and environmental improvement.