BUDGET INCLUDES $193,400 FOR BOBBY BYRD'S FAMILY - The strangest line item in the summary of the budget extension that is circulating among Dem staff is certainly the last one: "Provides $193,400 for the survivors of Robert C. Byrd, the late Senator from West Virginia".
Mexico's legislators now have a handy, 450-page single-volume summary of the budget to consult, containing a crisp synopsis of each department's aims, main spending plans and performance targets.The budget used to come in only one format: multiple volumes.
In a summary of the budget released on Friday, the administration said "difficult trade-offs had to be made" to comply with the reduced levels of discretionary spending and still provide increases for the president's priorities.
In a summary of the budget cuts that will affect all four of the Getty Trust's divisions, most severely the J. Paul Getty Museum, trust officials said on Wednesday that the institution had suspended its usual practice of basing its annual budget on an average of the endowment's value over the last 36 months.
The cautious government still allows only a summary of its budget to be published, and is even dragging its feet over a proposed survey, to be paid for by a Swedish government agency, to establish just how widespread corruption is.The cynical explanation for all this holds that the government is simply doing the minimum to dispel public anger.
The winners, given in a Japanese summary of major budget items by the Ministry of Education, include a near tripling of funding, to $107 million, for several new and expanded "green initiatives" intended to make Japan a low-carbon society and grants for basic research by academics, up 1.7% to $3 billion.
- Obama submits to Congress a 140-page summary of his proposed budget for the next fiscal year.
But based on what administration officials have said, here is a summary of how the budget as proposed would affect funds available to help pay for college.
While a complete appropriations bill had not been made available to Republicans by this evening, the McGreevey administration did release a summary of its updated budget proposals, which call for spending $400 million less than in the governor's original plan.
A White House summary of NASA's budget notes that the savings achieved by reducing funding for SOFIA will enable "continued support for higher priority programs, including lower cost, competitive science missions, and extended operations for the Cassini Saturn mission".
