Sentence examples for discretionary program from inspiring English sources

The NPEA raid only affected the Australia Council's discretionary program.

Conrad explained that Senate appropriators consider the conversion of a discretionary program to a mandatory one to be a usurpation of their power by the executive branch.

"We're a discretionary program, so we're going to be subject to this hammer," said Peggy Ingraham, senior vice president for public policy for Meals on Wheels Association of America.

The committee should be working overtime to avoid a sequester, which would cut virtually every discretionary program at the Pentagon and the Homeland Security Department by 10 percent in 2013.

"The issue here is the immediate need to avert draconian cuts," said Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, "versus saving and preserving and insulating every single cent of a new discretionary program".

Given the low automatic stabilizers, however, the total effect of fiscal policy in the US has been more moderate than the size of the discretionary program might suggest.

While proposing cuts in discretionary programs, Mr. Bush had less to say about the entitlement programs.

But it did not exempt "discretionary" programs, whose financing Congress determines in its annual appropriations process.

David: My message to Republicans: Never talk about domestic discretionary programs.

It's also instructive that they suggest reducing all discretionary programs by $49 billion in the next fiscal year.

That standoff has left the discretionary programs to bear the brunt of deficit reduction measures.