Sentence examples for spending mandates from inspiring English sources

"If you control what's going on in the House, you have huge influence over the final" legislation, as well as over the budgets and spending mandates that shape regulation.

The property tax measure, which affects homeowners throughout New York, would cap annual increases in the amount of property taxes collected annually by school districts and towns at 2 percent a year or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower, while offering some relief for local governments from state spending mandates.

The improving job market could falter, particularly if cutbacks in government spending mandated by the so-called sequester take a substantial bite out of economic growth.

Mr Cunha has already pledged to put to a vote a constitutional amendment that would stop the government from pruning extra spending mandated by Congress through earmarks.

To hear many Republicans tell it, the huge surge that won them control of the House was a clear referendum: an anti-Obama, anti-health care law, anti-government spending mandate.

But officials from the United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations World Food Program warned that such a spending mandate would severely reduce the flexibility the United States government needs to quickly deliver sufficient food in emergencies.

The cuts were part of across-the-board government spending reductions mandated by Congress under so-called budget sequestration.

Last year, Congress approved a budget that technically was within spending ceilings mandated by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

Payroll taxes increased in January, and the effect of across-the-board spending cuts mandated by Congress is expected to be felt more broadly in the months ahead.

Much of the state's money must be spent on mandates required by Washington and state ballot initiatives, and the economy continues to be sluggish.

Over the next few months, Congress faces a new series of deadlines: The spending cuts mandated by the sequestration will begin on March 1, unless Congress delays them again.