Traduction de «Budget des dépenses facultatives » (Français → Anglais) :

Obama's last budget froze all spending in the government and cut most discretionary funding, but he added $6 billion more to the NASA budget to go after those new technologies, the idea being to get them to Mars sooner.

Investment decisions can also be influenced by the split-incentive problem (eg between the landlord (who installs the boiler) and the tenant (who pays the heating bill); or where a corporate investment budget is not coordinated with the energy budget.

The amounts resulting from the application of voluntary modulation should be taken into consideration when defining the annual ceiling for the expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the possibility to adopt detailed rules concerning in particular voluntary modulation should be included in Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005.

In order to make their review of the estimates more effective, standing committees can do the following: have committee members carefully examine the estimates and the RPPs and DPRs to identify areas of interest or concern; develop a set of priority areas for questioning—possibly in a planning meeting—before the review of the estimates and the appearance of witnesses; have researchers prepare technical, administrative questions that are forwarded by the chair to departmental officials before their appearance in front of the committee; select a specific program or business line of interest to committee members for careful scrutiny; us ...[+++]e the independent information and expertise available from other organizations, such as industry groups, interested parties, and the Office of the Auditor General, to support the committee's work; engage other stakeholders in the discussion of the estimates and RPPs and DPRs; encourage departments and agencies to provide information in the RPPs and DPRs in a way that meets the committee's needs; and tie the high-level information provided in the estimates documents to more detailed information usually available through electronic links.

In its hearings on the Supplementary Estimates (B), Senators noted that the November 2006 Auditor General's report found that between the fiscal years 1989-1990 and 1996-1997, years in which there were deficits, Supplementary Estimates made up an average of 4.5% of the total Estimates submitted to Parliament. Between the fiscal years 1997-1998 and 2005- 2006, years in which there were surpluses, the percentage more than doubled to 10.4%.

In its hearings on the Supplementary Estimates (B), Senators noted that the November 2006 Auditor General's report found that between the fiscal years 1989-1990 and 1996-1997, years in which there were deficits, Supplementary Estimates made up an average of 4.5% of the total Estimates submitted to Parliament. Between the fiscal years 1997-1998 and 2005- 2006, years in which there were surpluses, the percentage more than doubled to 10.4%.