Sentence examples for appropriations authority from inspiring English sources

They have been waging a frantic effort to get Congress to use its appropriations authority to push the White House to spend more money.

We stand with the 9/11 commission that the national interest requires the two houses' intelligence committees to fully assume appropriation authority.

Workloads increase and regulatory authority expands when new industries become subject to the appropriations authorized by the patent law.

Among the skeptics is Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut, who leads the House appropriations subcommittee with authority over the agency.

It calls for Congressional authority and appropriations to put at least one copy of every book into storage forever.

Using their constitutional authority over appropriations, the Democrats in Congress forbade the C.I.A. to spend federal funds to support the Contras, a rightist rebel group.

Among the commission's recommendations was either to create a joint House-Senate intelligence committee, or to give existing intelligence committees the power of the purse -- stripping the appropriations committees of that authority.

Without an appropriation, there is no authority to spend.

An appropriation is the legal authority for spending given by the city council to the various agencies of the city government.

Jefferson's victory enabled Congress to assert its authority by making appropriations so highly specific as to hinder executive action.

In a statement, the governor's press secretary, Aaron McLear, said, "The governor's constitutional authority to veto appropriations is unquestioned and will be upheld by the courts".