Sentences with phrase «to pass a budget»

Let's not pass a budget on the final day of the session this year.

You know, the half of congress that didn't pass a budget for three years?

This means that the bill will fit just barely into the $ 1.5 trillion budget window created by the recently passed budget resolution.

Looking back to 2013, state lawmakers passed a budget that spent $ 500 million less on public education than in 2008.

In the recently passed budget, every county department cut costs.

He held no press conference after passing the budget this year, something he's done each year since taking office in 2011.

After that processes were modified so the upper house could not prevent the lower house from passing budget legislation.

It is the third year that they have failed in their most basic duty — passing a budget during the session.

One decision the county made recently was passing a budget which includes a two percent property tax increase for residents.

Fifty - three percent of voters said passing the budget on time is more important, while 37 percent opted for the ethics reforms — even if that means the budget is late.

Despite passing the budget, board members set the tone for next year by saying such a budget proposal will not be accepted.

There are many stories about passing the budget — this episode features some of the stories from 12 hours during one of those days.

In previous years, the county adjusted town property tax bills after towns passed their budgets to pay for safety net costs.

However, with the required minority representation, there is no evidence the board will be able to do what it's supposed to do, particularly pass a budget.

The clock is ticking to pass the budget on time.

He'll have control until lawmakers pass a budget.

A Senate staff member recounted on Twitter how, after a late night of passing budget bills in March, Larkin made a point to thank staff members for their hard work.

So, when they brought the MTEF, we said that we will subject it to critical analyses and not rubber stamp it and then it was in the media that National Assembly should be blamed for not passing the budget in time, I responded by telling them they brought empty documents.

U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei and nearly four dozen of his House colleagues want to make a provision permanent that would prevent members of Congress from receiving paychecks if they don't pass a budget before the beginning of the next fiscal year.

It also requires that each House of Congress pass a budget by April 15 or else congressional members will not be paid.

Facing a government shutdown over a stalemate on the budget, New York state lawmakers voted on Monday to extend the deadline for passing a budget for two months.

Reconciliation is a specific process of passing a budget bill and, as a result can not be filibustered by the Senate.

Even though both the state Assembly and state Senate passed budget resolutions last week allocating $ 25 million in federal money to fund senior centers, that does not mean the centers are in the clear.

MEMPHIS, TN — Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region (PPGMR) sharply criticized the Tennessee General Assembly for passing a budget with an anti-women's health care amendment that would end family planning funding for Planned Parenthood patients in Tennessee.

By comparison, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and, in the earlier debate, Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) appeared almost statesmanlike in acknowledging the recklessness of passing a budget without Planned Parenthood funding since they know it will be vetoed by the White House, though they also favor defunding this highly useful organization.

But shortly after the General Assembly passed the budget bill over Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto, the Governor's Office of Management and Budget found that the budget resulted in a $ 1.5 billion deficit.

Tonight, with my 13 grandchildren firmly in mind, I joined 227 reform - minded colleagues in passing the budget plan prepared by Congressman Paul Ryan.

In January the U.S. Congress passed a budget deal that boosts U.S. government spending, following a December tax package that slashes corporate tax rates.

Last month, the legislature passed a budget for the fiscal year that began on 1 July that would have left the state with a shortfall of $ 3 billion to $ 4 billion.

Earlier Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called for lawmakers to focus on passing a budget deal stripped of any provisions for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.

It took five months, including the regular legislative session and a special session called by the governor, but the Alaska legislature finally passed a budget in June.

The Legislature passed another budget extender that included — at the request of both houses — the $ 25 million loan to NYRA.

While the proposal must undergo an environmental review, the E-ZPass system reprogrammed and the Legislature pass the budget on time, sources told the Advance the toll relief is expected to be effective April 1.

Even for Albany, where keeping track of convicted public officials is almost as tough as passing a budget, the guilty plea by former Comptroller Alan Hevesi was shocking and squalid.

Despite the mutual State of the State boycott between Cuomo and state lawmakers, they will all have to work together eventually on issues like passing the budget, which is expected to have a deficit, and perhaps implementing new laws — to make college tuition free for more students, and allowing ride - sharing services like Uber and Lyft in more places in New York.

Connecticut state representative Gail Lavielle [R] photographs the vote tally after the House passed a budget bill 126 - 23.

Lawmakers are grumbling, but they know that Cuomo holds the trump card: If they fail to ratify his plan before April 1, he can force them to choose between passing his budget more or less as is, or shutting down state government.

(UPDATE: The Board unanimously passed the budget at the August Board Meeting).

Latimer and Kettner were in the UK when the State Senate passed the budget package and remained in England until the following weekend.

The president can't pass a budget even when he has a Democratic Senate.

«We have to pass a budget at the state level; we have some urgent matters before us.

Yet here we are in 2015 with Governor Cuomo having successfully browbeaten the state Assembly and Senate into passing a budget that makes value added measures based on test scores effectively half of the evaluation system for teachers, and with a new Commissioner who is pondering what percentage is «correct» for such measures.

Congress used to spend money by passing a budget first, then 12 separate appropriations bills.

Both the Senate and Assembly passed budget proposals yesterday, rejected Governor Cuomo's decision to shift federal funding away from senior programs.

But the fact is that Cuomo has already slain the late - budget dragon: Right on taking office in 2011, he broke Albany of its decades - long habit of passing the budget months late.

The Senate passed the budget Tuesday evening.

The Federal Government did not pass a budget so there are no funds available to keep the National Parks open.

Lawmakers passed a budget last July that allows parents to send their kids to private schools with annual taxpayer - funded $ 4,200 vouchers.

But if things happen, we can always come back after the federal government passes their budget, if it looks like they've done catastrophic things.»

HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES BUDGET WITH STEEP CUTS: Doesn't include money for full - day pre-kindergarten, teacher incentive pay, arts education and numerous other school programs.