The president's plan "will allow the Postal Service to realign its business plan to better compete in the changing marketplace of increasingly digital communication, " according to the budget document.
One key aspect of accountability is financial accountability, which can refer to processes and mechanisms that are designed to ensure that the funds are distributed equitably, reach the intended users or beneficiaries and are used properly according to the budget.
"The incidence and complexity of computer crime continues to increase rapidly as greater numbers of people develop proficiency in manipulating electronic data and navigating computer networks, and as worldwide access to the Internet continues to expand, " according to the budget document.
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This is welcome news, and news made possible in part by the up to 1.6 million jobs that the Recovery Act has already created and saved according to the Congressional Budget Office.
According to the draft budget every government department will have to make savings of 1.6% within their total budget.
During the Bush administration, annual funding for these programs exceeded the total amount spent on such programs in the entire decade to 2001, according to the 2009 budget report from the Project on Middle East Democracy.
In other words, we've put our cards on the table: According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), our plan puts the federal budget on the path to balance without resorting to job-destroying tax hikes.
According to the Republican budget that was passed, for example, we would have to eliminate transportation funding by a third.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, average premiums would rise by 15 to 20 percent.
Instead, Obama's Democrats have so far given him higher costs (according to the Congressional Budget Office) and higher taxes.
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The deficit has sky rocketed and will match GDP in 2020 on our present course according to the Congressional Budget Office.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, in 1979 over half of all federal social spending went to the poorest fifth of households.
Since SCHIP was signed into law, the uninsured rate among poor children has dropped to 16.9% in 2005 from 22.5% in 1996, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, immediately increasing the Medicare age to 67 would save about 5% in the annual Medicare budget not an insignificant amount of money.
If Congress and the president can't come up with a compromise by the end of fiscal 2008, 36 states would by then exhaust their SCHIP funding, according to the Congressional Budget Office report.
Perhaps most significant, the spending outline would "transfer space station management reporting from the Johnson Space Center in Texas to NASA headquarters until a new program management plan is developed and approved, " according to the proposed budget.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal debt held by the public (which does not include social security obligations) was 35 percent of GDP in 2000, 62 percent in the second quarter of 2010, and is expected to reach 70 percent in 2011.
And all of you put extraordinary work last year into making serious changes that would not only reform the insurance industry, not only cover 30 million Americans, but would also bend the cost curve, and save a trillion dollars on our deficits, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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By mid-century, according to the Congressional Budget Office, every penny of federal tax revenue will go to pay for Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid (a large share of which is spent on long-term care for the elderly), as well as the interest on the debt needed to fund these programs.
On the jobs front, again according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the private sector has created an average of approximately 154, 000 jobs a month for the past 30-month time period though the national unemployment rate remains above 8%.
The UK economy will contract by 0.1% this year, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the independent body that makes economic forecasts for the government.
According to the archdiocese, budget cuts and personnel changes allowed Caroline to slip through the cracks, but she actually should've been denied the opportunity to play when she initially applied in fifth grade.
But according to the Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities, over half of all entitlement spending flows to the elderly and around 40% is spent on health care.
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In addition, the IRS would collect hundreds of billions of dollars in new fees on employers, drug companies and device makers, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The House bill would extend insurance coverage to 36 million uncovered Americans and guarantee that 96 percent of Americans have coverage, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the U.S. economy has grown for twelve straight quarters, but the pace of the recovery has been slow and below historical recovery averages.
During 2001 to 2004, when a similar bonus depreciation provision was in effect, more than 30 states didn't allow some or all of the break, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The SBA also has saved entrepreneurs potentially billions in excess regulatory costs--all while cutting its overhead by 24%, according to the Office of Management and Budget, which helps the president formulate and administer the national budget.
The entire White House budget, according to the OMB, equals about five hundred million.
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According to the Office of Management and Budget, defense spending is expected to decline down to 3.1 percent in 2011.
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