It centers on restoring reality-based budgeting, overall competence and redeveloping downtowns as economic engines of an aging suburb that has no room to sprawl.
Though the Lisbon Treaty does not give them power over E.U. foreign policy, it does extend their competence over the E.U.'s budget and staffing rules.
Now that the trouble-hit Budget has called its competence into question, open divisions between the two parties could raise further doubts.
Take environmental issues - water policy, for example, has a big impact on the budget and here many competences should be sent back to national level.
"People want that core competence, they want to know that the budget process is going to be handled well, that the focus will be on public safety, etc.," he said.
Mr. Giuliani, who opposed the creation of the independent board as a mayoral candidate in 1992, has recently begun to expand its powers and budget, saying it has grown in competence.
Last month, the regional government of the Basque Country also announced that it would appeal to the constitutional court against the Spanish prime minister's 2013 budget, arguing that it violated regional competences over pension issues.
Doubts continued to be expressed about Perkin-Elmer's competence on a project of this importance, as their budget and timescale for producing the rest of the OTA continued to inflate.
Voters are looking for executive competence, something the Congress can affect only indirectly through oversight and the budget.
The update signals continued investment by Microsoft not only in its set of Bing -powered applications for Windows 8.1, but also that Bing itself has the budget to spend on — presumably — expensive projects to highlight its own competence.
