Sentences with phrase «voting on a budget about»

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Now that conservatives complained about the $ 1.3 trillion catchall spending bill — which blew through previous budget limits by $ 300 billion over this year and next, House GOP leaders have scheduled a vote this week on a proposed amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget.

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 - Congressional Republicans scrambled on Wednesday to reformulate their tax bill to satisfy lawmakers worried about how much it would balloon the U.S. budget deficit, as the measure moved toward a decisive U.S. Senate floor vote later this week.

The House and Senate are expected to vote on a massive budget deal that will prevent another government shutdown and increase federal spending by about $ 300 billion.

NEW LENOX — Questions about interfund loans stalled a vote on the proposed New Lenox Park District budget last week.

Sen. Darrel Aubertine, one of the Democratic senators who needed convincing to overcome his concerns and vote «yes» on the two - way budget deal yesterday, said today that he doesn't regret his decision, although he would have to «think long and hard» about supporting an override.

Republicans were uniformly tight lipped leaving the conference Saturday when asked about their plans for the day and if a budget bill would be voted on at some point.

Diaz Sr. said he's «keeping my fingers crossed» about getting out of the hospital in time to make it to Albany to vote on the next round of budget extenders, adding: «I want to be there; I want to be there.»

Then the governor started making nosies about no need to rush into a final budget deal, and lawmakers — whose paychecks are being withheld while a final deal eludes them — insisted they were, in fact, close to an agreement, and clamored for him to send them bills to vote on.

There was no indication Tuesday morning about when Democratic leaders may attempt to to vote on a revised budget plan, but the legislature only has until midnight Wednesday to pass a budget before it's mandatory adjournment deadline.

The Assembly wrapped up its voting about 45 minutes before midnight on April 1, just barely delivering an on - time budget.

About $ 7 million is being proposed in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget amendment to pay for changes to the state's voting laws such as allowing for early voting in New York, his office on Monday announced.

UPDATE: A reader reminds me of another troublesome Sampson story that ran in the DN yesterday about how he chose to host a fundraiser at Yankee stadium while his colleagues and Gov. David Paterson were waiting for him up in Albany to negotiate on the budget in advance of the shutdown vote.

Fast forward to November, she claims the first time she heard about this new arrangement was a few days before we voted on the budget, a budget that had nothing in it for safety net charges.

The Times Union of Albany reported that, in 2017, about 560,000 New Yorkers voted on their school budget.

The Mattituck - Laurel Library will hold its vote Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.. On the table is a budget increase of 1.55 percent, which carries an additional tax cost of about $ 7.12 for the average household, according to the library's fall newsletter.

On a budget of about $ 15,000, the Green candidate managed to secure a city council seat, narrowly beating out COPE councillor Ellen Woodsworth by 91 votes.

Rosenberg pulled down 27 % of the vote on a $ 1000 campaign budget (he was in my sons yeshiva this past sunday collecting some last little bit for his campaign, he raised about $ 95), running a campaign that was primarily a school project.

Here's US Sen. Chuck Schumer during a brief upstate swing through the Capital Region yesterday, talking about his hope that the Senate would vote on a bill that included some $ 16.1 billion worth of Medicaid funding for the states — including $ 1.1 billion New York has already accounted for in its 2010 - 2011 budget.

In other words, if the fiscal year was the calendar year, the country would run for an entire year on a budget voted on by PREVIOUS Congress - which is precisely what we are edging towards anyway given the 1976 2 month shift and your note about budget «tardiness» of late.

The UConn College Democrats invited Sen. Gayle Slossberg, a Milford Democrat and one of three Democrats who voted in favor of a state budget proposed by Republicans, to speak on Oct. 3 about the impact of the state budget on the university.

This targets the situation that repeats every year in Albany where lawmakers are given those massive budget documents with hardly any time to look over what they are about to vote on.

Although members of the NIFA board declined to talk publicly Wednesday, sources say sentiment is strong among the six directors to vote to take over Nassau County's finances when they meet again on Thursday, with Conservative George Marlin and chairman Ronald Stack the most concerned about the county's budget being out of balance.

The district voted on its budget last month, which included a 6.4 percent increase in spending — a total of about $ 418 million.

The budget is not yet final: the Council will vote on it next week, but given today's stamp of approval from Ms. Mark - Viverito and a horde of smiling council members who stood behind her and the mayor, it is just about guaranteed to pass.

ALBANY — Members of the state Senate said they plan to vote Tuesday evening on the «entirety» of the state budget, even though some issues about taxes and real estate subsidies have still not been resolved.

The formal term you are looking for is «interim budget» (if we are talking about both spending and revenues) or, more commonly, «vote - on - account» (when talking only about spending).

Following the vote on the 2017 budget, legislators shared concerns about 2018, discussing a possible 4.5 - 6 % tax hike, or the potential need for a dozen layoffs to balance that budget.

Only hours before a highly important vote on the new, $ 41.3 billion state budget, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy raised major questions about potential problems with the language on hospital financing.

In the Senate, a string of Democrats introduced hostile amendments, trying to force a vote on issues — like gun control and early voting — that had fallen out of budget negotiations in recent days, and their remarks mixed anger over the lack of action with wisecracks about the late hour.

For years, unproven allegations have swirled about potential conflicts of interest between legislators who craft the laws and vote on the state budget, and the clients that they represent.

Democratic lawmakers voted on a budget and tax plan to close $ 570 million of the projected deficit for the next fiscal year, but that's about $ 360 million short of the total budget gap.

«Very rarely we've had a day where we've had more than 10 bills under consideration at all, and we're roughly halfway through the session calendar,» said Senate Democratic floor leader Mike Gianaris on Wednesday, about an hour after his attempts to get a vote on his conference's budget proposal came to naught.

«We can stand here and say with a straight face that what we are about to vote on is a balanced budget for 2014,» Legislator Alden Wolfe said.

After voting on the budget Tuesday night, commissioners were scheduled to hear a presentation about new charter school applications for 2019.

As CT Mirror reports, the two - year budget that was passed on July 3, 2015 allocates $ 12.4 million dollars to add about 700 seats to existing charter schools and to open two new charter schools this fall, one in Bridgeport and one Stamford, both of which are being opened despite the local boards of education voting against them.

Nobody is in any doubt about Cummings's brilliance: he's advertised it widely, and written thousands of words about his strategy on his blog — about how he spent 98 % of his budget online; how Vote Leave's ads received nearly a billion impressions; and how, in the end, it came down to just 600,000 people, or just over 1 % of registered votes.

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