Browse by Tag: budget
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Update on “The Fiscal Cliff”
Currently, Congress is on recess and many lawmakers are in full campaign mode in preparation for the November 6 elections. A lame-duck session of Congress is slated to begin on November 13, after the elections. One of the top issues...
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OMB Directs Federal Agencies to Continue Normal Spending Despite Upcoming Sequester
On September 28, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo to all federal agencies... directing them to plan for spending in FY2013 as if Congress will prevent or postpone the automatic, across-the-board cuts to federal
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President Obama Signs Six-Month Continuing Resolution into Law
On September 28, President Obama signed into law a six-month Continuing Resolution or “CR” (H. J. Res. 117), which will fund the federal government for the first half of fiscal year 2013—from October 1, 2012 through March 27, 2013. The...
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Despite Calls for a Grand Bargain, Sequestration is Still a Very Real Possibility
Last week (on September 14), the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a congressionally-mandated report on the Administration’s plans to implement sequestration, which are across-the-board, automatic budget cuts to defense and domestic programs that will go into...
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Update on Sequestration
NADO Webinar on Sequestration (http://vimeo NULL.com/47607198) from NADO (http://vimeo NULL.com/nado) on Vimeo (http://vimeo NULL.com). When President Obama signed the Budget Control Act (BCA) (P.L. 112-25) in August 2011, ending a Congressional standoff over increasing the debt limit, the January 2,...
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NADO Hosts Webinar with Bipartisan Policy Center on Sequestration
NADO Webinar on Sequestration (http://vimeo NULL.com/47607198) from NADO (http://vimeo NULL.com/nado) on Vimeo (http://vimeo NULL.com). Click here... to view the Power Point slides On August 13, the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO), in partnership with the Bipartisan Policy Center (http://bipartisanpolicy
