The parliamentary intelligence and security committee (ISC) has questioned whether the agencies were making the claimed savings and said their budgets should be more rigorously scrutinised to ensure efficiencies were "independently verifiable and/or sustainable".
Over the summer he promised to "rigorously examine each budget", and will give fresh public spending predictions in the pre-budget report in autumn.
Several people I talked to pointed out that Mr. Pataki had gradually lost much of his first-string staff (including his rigorously conservative first-term budget director) and is himself showing signs of being bored.
The targets are likely unreachable, even if he rigorously keeps to his punishing budget.
While public health budgeting will always have to take into account public concerns that are not based on the evidence of relative risks, we argue that such policy moves should be as rigorously examined, as is the budgeting for tobacco control.
In Washington, Congress patted itself on the back for balancing the budget for the first time in 30 years, rigorously avoiding all the evidence that it was the surging economy rather than the lawmakers' self-discipline that did the trick.
Dick Armey, a former Republican House majority leader and now a leader of the Tea Party movement, said in an interview that Tea Party-backed members of Congress would rigorously look for places to prune the Pentagon budget.
Many conservatives have urged him to rebrand himself with primary voters by embracing a more rigorously right-wing policy agenda – endorsing Paul Ryan's budget more explicitly, outlining a more aggressively supply-side approach to tax policy or even a pure flat tax, echoing furious attacks on the Federal Reserve by Ron Paul and Gingrich, and so on.
The goal of the contest is to prove that not only can well-funded private company projects like SpaceX contribute to extraterrestrial exploration, but so can anyone, with the help of open source, collaborative design and tools that make building rigorously engineered 3D tech affordable and accessible, regardless of budget or available PC hardware.
There is widespread confidence that the government, which has rigorously applied a structural surplus rule since 2001, will comply with the budget and, if revenue falls below target, will trim expenditure correspondingly.
