"Maybe there are things we can focus on better," Dr. Marburger said of fields tentatively scheduled for budget cuts, "to make them a higher priority".
Both the House and Senate have tentatively set a budget for the highway agency of $181.9 million for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, compared with an administration request of $286.5 million.
But with Gordon Brown to press fellow world leaders for co-ordinated reflationary action at the London summit of the G20 in early April, Darling has spent the last few weeks thinking of possible new expansion plans for a budget tentatively scheduled either for early March or after the visit of Obama to the G20 meeting.
The governor wants the health care package in place before he presents his 2002-3 budget proposal, tentatively scheduled for Jan . 22
What followed was stunning politics, the commissioning of a report on funding options, winning the broad debate about the need to put up taxes to pay for the NHS and then the specific proposals, tentatively made in the pre-Budget report and announced finally in the following Budget.
At present, seven people work at Berec, which will ultimately employ 20 to 30 people, Mr. Fonteijn said; its annual budget has been tentatively set at €4.5 million, or $6.4 million.
Counting the proceeds from that proposed bond issue, Mr. McGreevey's budget team has tentatively identified possible ways to bridge about two-thirds of next year's $6 billion gap, administration officials said on Friday.
Last week, EMBL's council tentatively resolved to cover this looming budget shortfall.
On the other hand, this past week the administration and the Democratic Congressional leadership took the bold tactical step of putting health reform on a fast track by tentatively making it part of the budget resolution, the one form of legislation not susceptible to a Senate filibuster.
The budget for the upcoming movie, tentatively titled "Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla," is 1 billion yen ($8.5 million).
