The EU Commission had wanted a 5% increase that would have delivered a budget of 1.033tn euros - that's more than a trillion over seven years.
Mr Lew, a former White House budget director, helped Mrs Clinton win a 10% budget increase for the department.
Having grabbed a big budget increase, the army could probably afford such a campaign.
Fallin approved a 20 percent budget increase and has pledged to make mental health a priority again this year.
Critics said it showed the EU's wastefulness, at a time when it was arguing for a budget increase.
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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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.
Bragagnolo said Timmins seeks to build on its early success with a bigger budget and expects a major increase its in resource reserves over the next eight months.
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He claims never to have voted for a tax increase, or for an unbalanced budget, or for a congressional pay rise and never to have gone on a congressional junket.
He proposed closing some tax loopholes to increase revenue, and backed a budget plan put together by Senate Democrats last week.
The world's most powerful woman (see Forbes, Sept. 18) felt the increase was necessary to close a budget gap that she believes would have further undermined an already feeble economy.
At the same time that the Commission has been bringing these negligence based cases, it has been saying that its resources are limited and it has been asking Congress for a substantial increase in its budget.
To prevent a sharp increase in the budget deficit in the short term, the new government may eliminate research and development tax credits for businesses and reduce tax credits and government subsidies for the KiwiSaver retirement savings scheme.
The 2013 EU budget is 132.8bn euros - a 2.4% increase on the 2012 budget.
"With an increase of the millionaire's tax and a significant increase in the minimum wage, this budget takes strong steps to address income inequality, " said Michael Kink of the Strong Economy for All coalition of progressive groups.
Republicans are suggesting only a short-term increase so budget cut talks can start.
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This is because the basic analysis is that an increase in the budget deficit provides a fiscal boost to aggregate demand.
Kuwait has experienced a 20% increase in government budget revenue, which has led to higher budget expenditures, particularly wage hikes for many public sector employees.
In May Stephen Harper, the prime minister, unveiled a new defence strategy called Canada First, with a pledge to increase the annual budget for the military by two-thirds over 20 years.
Those people with the ability to increase the budget sufficiently to make a significant dent in the pay gap, should also consider instituting objective evaluation procedures to avoid the undeniable effect of implicit bias on promotional decisions.
In March Mr Neumann was one of 11 Republicans who blocked a 14% increase in the budget that pays for the various House committees: if Congress expected the rest of the country to accept belt-tightening, it should tighten its own belt, he said.
Those of us over age 50 remember that the outbreak of inflation in the 1970s led to record high interest rates and a wrenching recession that saw a four percentage point increase in the unemployment rate and a tripling of the federal budget deficit between 1979 and 1982.
Without both, limited government will be nothing more than a tea party slogan and a balanced budget will be nothing more than a tax-increase trap.
Watching what we spend on health care from a federal budgetary perspective will continue to increase, and it will encompass a greater percentage of our budget every single day.
Council tax in Reading is to increase by 1.9% following a budget meeting of the borough council.
In 1993, President Clinton tried again with a Democrat Congress voting through a tax increase as part of another budget deal.
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Making indexation permanent would remove the annual threat of such a tax increase and expunge from the budget this fictional source of future revenues.
Bill Dudley, an economist at Goldman Sachs, argues that a big increase in America's budget deficit was inevitable after the bursting of its bubble.
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