Sentence examples for passing budget from inspiring English sources

One: both the House and Senate are committing to passing budget resolutions over the spring.

The deal on debt limits means that the Legislature will be able to begin passing budget bills in the next few days.

Two decades later, reacting to perceived abuses by Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, Congress passed the Budget and Impoundment Control Act to reassert its control over the budget; the act imposed constraints on impoundments, created the Congressional Budget Office, and established a timetable for passing budget bills.

ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson criticized lawmakers on Tuesday for passing budget bills this week that did not plan for a likely shortfall of up to $1 billion, saying he would call lawmakers back to Albany in the middle of the fall campaign season if they did not deal with the problem beforehand.

Besides, we have fewer soldiers with every passing budget review.

This rule would basically prevent Congress from passing budgets that increase the deficit.

That artfulness, however, has removed the impetus for passing budgets on time.

CONGRESS may not be very good at passing budgets, but that is not for lack of discussion of them.

Mr. Dewhurst does not go quite as far but stresses his history of passing budgets and cutting taxes.

Because other countries have had their own delays in passing budgets, July 31 "is sort of an awkward date," he added.

This ensured general idiocy and missed deadlines every budget season.Not any more; legislative leaders now (slightly absurdly) pat themselves on the back for passing budgets on time.