The result is that trading votes in congress for posts and budgetary amendments is quasi-institutionalised.The sports ministry is one of the president's prize goodies to dispense, and has by custom and practice become the possession of the Communist Party (wags say it is bringing about the revolution through football).
Once a draft report, opinion or proposal has been submitted to the committee, members are given the opportunity to submit amendments (including budgetary amendments).
Still it is worrisome that, in an effort to reduce the budgetary cost, the manager's amendment would require inspections of "high risk" facilities — those that handle certain foods, have a past record of problems or less vigilant prevention efforts — only once every three years, after a five-year transition period.
It passed the House of Representatives this month after he attached it as an amendment to a larger budgetary measure.
It was not clear last night whether Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has expressed doubt that any new stadiums will be built soon because of budgetary constraints, knew of the lease amendments.
The yield on Spain's 10-year securities climbed slightly to 5.06 percent, despite passage in the lower house of the Spanish Parliament on Friday of an amendment that will enshrine stricter budgetary discipline in the Constitution.
The strengthening of budgetary surveillance by the European authorities, the balanced budget amendment, and the inclusion of automatic, treaty-prescribed sanctions for transgression, could condemn Ireland and other eurozone countries to lengthy periods of economic stagnation.
As regards budgetary remarks, the new DB is approved, thus integrating amendments introduced by the European Parliament or the Council, except for budget lines 04 03 01 03 and 19 03 01 06, with the understanding that these amendments cannot modify or extend the scope of an existing legal base, or impinge on the administrative autonomy of institutions.
