Last month, Congress approved spending $20 million on expanded tests of the vaccine in humans.

As a result, the City Council in November approved spending an additional $40 million.

Their relentless attention helped force the Oregon Legislature to approve spending $9.2 million to improve conditions at the 122-year-old hospital.

Last spring voters approved spending $8.3 million to add space at each of the elementary schools.

In 1997 the Legislature approved spending $225 million over three years to cut class sizes, beginning in 1999.

When the City Council approved spending $4,000 per year to run the library, Carnegie contributed $50,000 for the building.

Its board approved spending $100 million of the $591 million on consulting work four months later.

In a second referendum in May voters approved spending $3.5 million on improvements.

In 1995, Congress approved spending $200 million to turn the historic Navy Yard into a modern office center.

But they approved spending $50 million to build clinics at each site, and to pay for work at other hospitals.

In past recessions, Japanese politicians have approved huge supplemental spending on public works projects.

The state constitution prohibits the houses from approving new spending until they have first acted on the governor's budget bills.

And taxpayers are reluctant to approve large-scale spending if the schools are just going to be closed when the blip is over.

Some large bond issues were approved and when final results are in, voters may have approved more new spending that many analysts had expected.

But until and unless Congress approves spending, the project cannot go forward.

After the threat of across-the-board cuts is past for a given year, Congress can then approve added spending without setting off automatic cuts.

One of the last sticking points in negotiations Friday centered on the Council's powers to approve spending.

It is generally expected that Congress will approve spending of $20 billion to $21 billion.

Public works were greatly in demand at the time, because of the British government's reluctance to approve public spending in the colony.

The Council, he said, did not approve new spending but rather restored core services while making equal cuts elsewhere.