Sentence examples for budget early from inspiring English sources

Indiana lawmakers beat their deadline and passed a state budget early Tuesday evening, but in five other states, budget deals for the 2010 fiscal year remained in limbo, as legislators made last-minute efforts to avert shutdowns.

In approving the budget early Thursday, California lawmakers also agreed to place on the ballot a proposed constitutional amendment that would do away with partisan primaries in favor of an open-primary system in which the top two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, would face off in a general election.

"We consider it appropriate to introduce an acceleration of the measures which we introduced recently in the fiscal planning law to give us the possibility of reaching our objective of balancing the budget early, by 2013 instead of 2014," Mr. Berlusconi announced, according to the agency report.

The cabinet will announce its first measures, ones not requiring legislation, next week, and send further ones to the Bundestag as a bill during the debate on the 2003 budget early next month.The commission thinks Germany's 4m jobless could be halved within three years were its recommendations implemented promptly.

The cabinet will announce its first measures, ones not requiring legislation, next week, and send further ones to the Bundestag as a bill during the debate on the 2003 budget early next month.Cutting the jobless total in half within three years is feasible, according to the commission, if its recommendations are implemented promptly.

Confronted with high-level defections from his governing coalition, Prime Minister Brian Cowen said he would dissolve the government after passage of the country's crucial 2011 budget early in December.

Mr. McGreevey is expected to sign the budget early next week, his spokesman said.

Legislative leaders said they were hopeful that an overall deal on the budget could be reached by Tuesday; they are trying to finish the budget early this year so lawmakers can head home for Passover and Easter.

Mr. Obama's budget early this year called for permanently extending the tax cuts except on high incomes, but administration officials signaled to Democrats that he could support a short-term extension of one or two years.

Yet some Democrats in the administration and in Congress say they privately expect that some proposals, including on Social Security, could well end up in Mr. Obama's budget early next year.

House leaders had difficulty rounding up the votes they needed to pass the budget early today because a group of conservatives had threatened to vote against it on the ground that it did not have enough safeguards against last-minute deals to increase spending.