"My bar is if we're going to add additional spending to programs, they need to be offset," Coats said, meaning cuts would have to be found elsewhere in the budget.
Furthermore, offsetting companies cannot agree on how much carbon is emitted and needs to be offset.
A national vaccination card program could significantly increase coverage, especially its validity, and the cost of developing such a program would be offset by the savings resulting from not vaccinating children who are already up to date with their vaccinations [ 58].
Campos aide Sheila Chung Hagen told the San Francisco Examiner that, outside of the parking meter funding source, the cost of the program could be offset by piecing together money from a number of different sources, such as, "Muni, the school district, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority".
We based our estimates of the cost of quitting on the Massachusetts Tobacco Control program conducted in the 1990s, and which had the highest per capita expenditure on tobacco control in the world.[ 6] Our analyses investigated the extent to which the cost of such smoking cessation programs will be offset by savings in the cost of care and medical treatment due to prevention of vision loss.
Thus, if pregnancy were prevented in 1 year for 100 teens, the program costs would be offset.
Interruptions in school lunch programs might be offset by providing meals in noncongregate settings outside of school or involving community organizations.
Mr. Obama urged Congress to pass a pending "pay as you go" measure, to require that new tax cuts or spending increases for benefit programs like Medicare be offset with tax increases or spending cuts to avoid adding to the deficit.
Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the soon-to-be speaker of the House, and two other Republican lawmakers on Thursday laid out proposed rule changes for the next Congress - which include mandating that spending on new programs be offset by budget cuts and changing how more ceremonial measures are dealt with.
It was not clear whether Mr. Bush's call for higher spending on some programs next year would be offset by proposed cuts elsewhere in education.
