According to a senior administration official, the president is still holding to his promise not to sign a short-term bill that extends Bush-era tax cuts across the board to buy time for a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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If it came down to it, would you approve of a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown?
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After White House and congressional leaders reached agreement on the fiscal 2011 budget, Congress approved another short-term spending bill to keep the government funded through Thursday at midnight.
According to news reports, Democrats and Republicans are unlikely to reach any sort of budget agreement before April 8, when a short-term spending bill for the current fiscal year expires.
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Now, in addition to making sure that this plan doesn't add to the deficit in the short term, the bill I sign must also slow the growth of health care costs, while improving care, in the long run.
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Institutions are also nervous, as very short-term T-bill rates have spiked, therefore causing the yield curve to flatten out.
He put out a safe on Friday saying he intends to pass another short-term stopgaps spending bill by the end of this week.
According to the report, as of May 22, the four banks issued only 340 billion yuan in new loans, with short-term loans and bill financing remaining the dominate type.
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The rider to deny the EPA funds to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant goes after a fairly recent policy that nevertheless has deep, strong bureaucratic roots, which again, is unlikely to be permanently altered by the expression of the will of one house of Congress on a short-term Continuing Appropriations bill.
It said it was "unconvinced" by the arguments for introducing fixed term Parliaments, claiming the bill owed "more to short term considerations than to a mature assessment of enduring constitutional principles or sustained public demand".
BillFloat announced a new twist on its short-term loan service for bill payments.
The wage bill went down in the short term but the pension costs went up in the long term.
Is the only objection that the President has to something that the Senate does to change the Boehner bill would be the short-term extension?
We are very forward looking - if we were short-term we would be in favour of this bill.
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After a decade of junk-bond fueled takeovers and financial deregulation, Bush Senior took office just as the bill was coming due for all the short-term debt fueled money-making that created the illusion of prosperity in the 1980s.
She has said while she was weeks away from making an offer, in the short term, WST should use money it has raised to pay the tax bill.
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Bill Gates once said that technology progress looks slow in the short term but revolutionary in the long term.
Managing director Bill Gross told the Financial Times last week that austerity in the short term was not the way to produce growth.
On the short-term list, we already, for example, passed a historic public lands bill that creates many more acres of public space that is environmentally protected -- (applause) -- from logging and from other -- from mining and from other uses.
The banks got the money and we (the tax payers) got the bill while banks like Citigroup hid these complex derivatives by labeling them, short term debt.
Every spare dime goes into a short-term bond fund, where it is certain to hold its value and be available when the tuition bill arrives.
Short-term interest rates such as the overnight bank borrowing rate and one-month and one- year Treasury bill rates are already close to zero.
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