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federal budget
EPA Docs Withheld
White House officials notified a House committee of the rare assertion about 15 minutes before the committee was to vote on holding the head of the EPA and a White House budget official in contempt of Congress for not providing the documents.
Sask. drops legal challenge of equalization
...amended by the Conservatives in the last federal budget, violates the Constitution. However, the party, which has several federal Conservative ties, has been trying to foster a warmer relationship with Ottawa since taking office last November....
Constitutional Amendment: We 'll Pursue It With Vigour - ...
And don't forget that for whatever you want to spend, there is need for a legislative process to appropriate this funding and the President has just brought a supplementary budget amendment, 2008 budget amendment to incorporate those things.
McCain Plan to Aid States on Health Could Be Costly
...will only get more difficult now that Mr. McCain has pledged to balance the federal budget by 2013, which already requires a significant reduction in the growth of spending. Mr. McCainâs proposal stands in sharp relief to that of his...
Obama's plans may not compute
Obama's campaign says the new spending would be more than offset by cuts to existing federal programs and other savings. Some budget experts point to the last Democratic presidency, Bill Clinton's, as an example of the budget pressures Obama might...
Tories set to hand N.S. $850M windfall
...Conservative caucus for voting against the budget that contained the equalization proposal....
McCain Shifts Emphasis to Cutting Deficit
...economic thinking - supply-siders who want to cut taxes and deficit hawks who want to balance the federal budget - remained unresolved....
Accounting Plan Would Allow Use of Foreign Rules
Foreign regulators are beyond the reach of Congress, which oversees American securities regulation through confirmation proceedings, enforcement hearings and approval of the Securities and Exchange Commissions budget.
As floodwaters recede, anger in Midwest rises
...almost as much as our entire state budget,' said Richard Leopold, director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Projects in these rural areas sometimes require an 'investment so large, it may be determined not in the best federal...
Nuclear's Tangled Economics
BUDGET BUSTERS But McCain may not want to follow the French example too closely. The Finnish project is two years behind schedule and more than $1.5 billion over budget, while construction of the other plant, in Normandy, was temporarily halted in...