The overall bill authorizes federal spending on education for the next seven years.

The company also said that its board had authorized future spending of up to $150 million to repurchase its class A common stock.

He has obviously authorized freer spending on players' contracts.

Both actions came as the Senate debated legislation that authorizes military spending for the 1997 fiscal year, which begins on Oct. 1.

Congress creates specific appropriation bills which authorize spending, which are signed into law by the President.

It is of particular importance that budget bills should be voted in a timely manner, since they authorize taxes and spending.

He authorized vast spending on planes, and insisted that American forces had to have air supremacy before taking the offensive.

Congress authorizes spending and not the president, and the past expeditures that add to the national debt did not "magically" stop when Obama became president.

First, they objected because the bill would authorize additional spending above and beyond current government deficit spending.

A century and a half later the makers of the American Constitution adapted it by giving Congress the power to authorize taxes and spending.

The vote also authorized spending $750,000 for the engineering study to verify the cost estimates.

Advocating of the Bonus Bill (authorizing spending the bonus from the bank on improvements)

The measure on fetal tissue was part of a bill to authorize spending $2.8 billion for the National Institutes of Health.

Congress last year authorized spending $9.5 billion on cleaning up civilian waste through 1991.

The bill, which passed 289 to 104, authorizes spending the money over five years to add the officers to the Police Department, which now has about 3,900 members.

A bill to authorize spending an extra $110 million to continue paying the census takers is advancing in both houses of Congress.

It extends the life of Federal higher education programs for five years and authorizes spending $115 billion on them.

The primary audience consists of the network executives who have to authorize spending the money to pay for the new digital equipment.

The refuge was part of a package of more than 200 land parcels for which Congress authorized spending a total of $215 million.

Congress recently authorized spending $20 million next year to begin production of a new set of spare structural parts for the current flight.