Having grabbed a big budget increase, the army could probably afford such a campaign.
They barely revised their proposed budget increase, threatening to pass it if necessary with Democratic help.
Critics said it showed the EU's wastefulness, at a time when it was arguing for a budget increase.
Mr Lew, a former White House budget director, helped Mrs Clinton win a 10% budget increase for the department.
Fallin approved a 20 percent budget increase and has pledged to make mental health a priority again this year.
The Commission, like the parliament, wanted the budget increase to be 6%.
Perhaps you work for a law enforcement agency and you'd like to justify a budget increase by pouring cash into something vaguely futuristic.
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Parliament negotiators have said they are willing to accept the EU governments' wish for a 2.9% budget increase - lower than the 6% that the parliament had voted for.
Talks on the 2014-2020 budget began on Thursday and continued on Friday afternoon, with most EU members wanting a budget increase, but the UK and some others wanting a freeze or cut.
The Commission says 2013 is the last year of the EU's current seven-year financial period - the time when bills for existing projects have to be paid, hence the need for a budget increase.
However, the Russian space agency is already hard-pressed financially and although it has been given a budget increase to cover the next six months, it says it will be unable to meet its commitments next year without American help.
Moves by Health Minister Hunter Adam to allow his department to take forward unspent balances to the next year's budget and to increase its 2013 budget were also defeated.
And news reports have suggested that its budget will increase by 70% in future.
My balanced budget will increase funding for these critical efforts by almost two-thirds over the next 5 years.
So Obama aims in his 2013 budget to increase the federal government by half above the postwar, bipartisan consensus.
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More awkward still, any deliberate loosening of the budget would increase the risk that the deficit would reach 3% next year.
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And its most recent budget would increase defence spending by just 1.5%, a far cry from the 9% average growth in 2006-09.
So the reason I make that point is you can't ask local elected officials to raise teachers' salaries and cut taxes and balance the budget and increase roads -- at some point you've got to make some choices.
Earlier on, in response to a question by Labour's Graeme Morrice, the minister pointed out the NHS budget would increase in real terms during the lifetime of the Parliament, adding that the number of full-time equivalent clinical staff working in the NHS was higher today than in May 2010 and September 2009.
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Increases in the estimated impact of the law on private insurance premiums, along with increases in the estimated cost of health care more generally, have led the Congressional Budget Office to increase its estimate of the budget cost of the law's coverage expansion.
So the choices are basically balance the budget, defund regulations and do not increase revenues, or balance the budget, fund regulations and include an increase in revenues.
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These policies then increase the budget deficit but are also intended to increase total demand in the economy, driving it back toward full employment.
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For example, his budget would base a spending increase for Medicaid on the rate of medical inflation, which is less than half the 13% increase previously assumed in the budget.
He consistently opposed efforts to eliminate programs and offered dozens of budget amendments to increase the maximum Pell Grant.
Reducing the budget deficit would increase the rate of growth in the economy, increase corporate profits, buttress the stock market.
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For example, in America a widely noted phenomenon is the consistent tendency of budget deficits to increase despite all efforts to reduce them.
They also assume that the AMT is adjusted for inflation, so the chart shows that we can balance the budget without any increase in the tax burden.
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Megna, Cuomo's budget director, noted the budget keeps the increase in spending to under 2 percent while holding the line on borrowing and keeping it just under the state's borrowing limit.
Again there was mention at the recent budget of an increase in pension age and this has yet to be finalised but it is certain that pension ages will increase, although remember that there is a difference between the State Pension age and the age at which you are able to start to draw benefits for public sector or private pensions.
The 2013 EU budget is 132.8bn euros - a 2.4% increase on the 2012 budget.
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