Congress Passes Budget Bill.

Congress Passes Budget Bill. A budget deal struck in November November:see month. between President Clinton Clinton.1 Town (1990 pop. 12,767), Middlesex co., S Conn., on Long Island Sound; settled 1663, set off from Killingworth and inc. 1838. The school that later became Yale opened here in 1702. andRepublican lawmakers mirrors the increases proposed for basic statevocational education vocational education,training designed to advance individuals' general proficiency, especially in relation to their present or future occupations. The term does not normally include training for the professions. grants in an FY2000 spending bill Clinton vetoedearlier that month. Under the agreement--which the House and Senate passed--basic stategrants for career and technical education will receive a 2.5 percentincrease, or an extra $25 million. And like the congressionalappropriations bill nixed by Clinton, the agreement freezes funding fortech prep at $106 million, funds school-to-work at $110 million andincreases the maximum Pell Grant The Pell Grant program is a type of post-secondary, educational federal grant program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. It is named after U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell and originally known as the the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program. from $3,125 to $3,300. As part of the compromise, Clinton agreed to a 0.38 percent fundingcut to federal programs, but those cuts will not be across the board.Instead, each federal agency will select where to make them. Forexample, the U.S. Education Department will have to cut its programs0.38 percent, but it has the flexibility to decide which programs totarget. The cuts will be made to programs the White House considers"lowest priority," says Chief of Staff John Podesta podesta(Italian: “power”) In medieval Italian communes, the highest judicial and military magistrate. The office was instituted by Frederick I Barbarossa in an attempt to govern rebellious Lombard cities. . However,no program will be cut by more than 15 percent.