Sentence examples for common sense budget from inspiring English sources

And, it was clear at a recent Common Sense budget information meeting in East Hampton that not everyone agrees with the group's approach.

All this is outlined in the Common Sense Budget Act, introduced last year by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif.

Let's see whether the Congressional debates on funding for Texas disaster relief lead to some common sense budget solutions focused on better prevention and resilience actions and better disaster preparedness and relief for people and our communities.

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois said the president had put forward a "responsible, common-sense budget that meets the needs of our nation in a time of war".

We had about 12,000 people show up last night to hear -- gave me a chance to talk -- about what tax relief means and common-sense budgeting will do for our nation.

"I don't think the leadership and many of the freshman Republicans who ran on cutting spending want to pass a nearly trillion-dollar bill this close to an election," said Steve Ellis, vice president for Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group.

Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan budget watchdog, issued a report on Wednesday that showed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York had obtained $342 million in earmarks last year, nearly four times as much as the total for Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Anna Soubry, the former business minister, said a transitional period, even if it meant keeping EU rules on free movement and paying into the EU budget, was "common sense" while a permanent new relationship was negotiated.

Planted firmly in the middle ground between end-is-nigh panic and drill-baby-drill denial, Mr. Lomborg believes the hysteria surrounding global warming has stifled common sense and encouraged countries to budget enormous sums of money to achieve negligible reductions in temperature.

As it turns out, the techniques the investigators considered seem unbounded by decency, common sense or even by a budget.

Representative Harold Rogers, a Kentucky Republican, said the proposed cuts in the E.P.A. budget were simply "common sense".