Obama didn't even point out this discrepancy — as he might have, had he chosen to make a stirring call for shared sacrifice rather than just hand the Republicans a fiscal olive branch that they could then use as a stick to beat him.
Constantine's major legacy to the empire was root-and-branch fiscal reform, which put efficient tax-collection at the heart of the entire bureaucratic system.
In a statement, Mr. Sandoval said that Mr. Perry had "the strongest record of job creation, fiscal discipline and executive branch leadership among the presidential candidates".
By requiring that the experiments be funded out of the branches' operating budgets, the bank imposed fiscal discipline on the program: Branch management would naturally demand that experiments have a high likelihood of providing attractive returns.
The governmentwide budget cuts known as sequestration, along with growing fiscal pressures on executive-branch agencies, are responsible for the gradually shrinking workforce, and agencies are rethinking how they operate to minimize cuts to public services.
They leave such fiscal action to the legislative branch.
Government contracts represent $1.15 million, or 31percentt, of the Westchester branch's income this fiscal year.
Consequently, the Regents are not an integral part of the Governor's executive branch and lack independent fiscal powers.
The number of executive branch employees retiring this fiscal year, which ends next month, is on track to be nearly twice the total who retired in 2009, according to government figures.
But I worry that the speed with which these sites have been designated, and their disparate fiscal demands, has outstripped the executive branch's capacity to underwrite them.
