Sentence examples for ceiling on spending from inspiring English sources

The Florida program, likely to be a model for many other states, shifts from Medicaid's traditional "defined benefit" plan to a "defined contribution" plan, under which the state sets a ceiling on spending for each Medicaid recipient.

The provision orders a major review by the Pentagon of U.S. overseas commitments, limitations on the size of U.S. troop deployments to Japan and South Korea, and a new ceiling on spending for U.S. military personnel stationed overseas.

Republicans counter that they consider the BCA as a ceiling on spending, not a floor, and they have every intention of trying to cut spending further.

There is a $5.3 million ceiling on spending in the primary, so the decision by Mr. Morris, a highly sought political consultant, to donate his services -- and the fact that he is running Mr. Hevesi's campaign with a skeletal staff out of his firm's headquarters -- would seem to give Mr. Hevesi an important advantage over his more free-spending rivals.

Although the resolution is nonbinding, it is an important benchmark that essentially sets a ceiling on spending and tax cuts for the year.

"The way in which this matter was handled - both in keeping councillors in the dark and smashing its own ceiling for spending ratepayers money on gala events - will trouble people across Mid and East Antrim, " the North Antrim MLA said.

The most likely outcome, said one Republican, is that the House will use the necessity of raising the ceiling to win concessions on spending.

"This proposal in no way constitutes a basis for negotiation that is acceptable for France in terms of ceilings on spending proposed for the common agricultural policy," Jean-Marc Ayrault, the French prime minister, said in a statement posted on a government Web site on Thursday.

He's the only Republican candidate who didn't slag the debt-ceiling deal for being insufficiently draconian on spending.

On a ceiling on state spending: "There are no magic formulas," he said, dismissing the idea.

The committee will also set a ceiling on supplemental spending that can be allocated after a budget is adopted.