Of course, the subsidy lobby never hesitates to shred that sacred contract when it is a matter of getting billions of dollars more money than a farm bill authorized, whether for "disaster aid" (an annual pleading) or "economic emergency" (the rationale for doubling subsides in the late 1990s and early 2000s).
But what is less clear is whether they are fully authorized, and whether Mr. Milosevic is serious about doing a deal, or simply trying to "see how the ground lies," an American official said.
Instead of being named for what they actually do, programs are named for the subsections of the laws that are supposed to authorize them, whether or not that authority is actually present in the language of the law.
That will depend on whether Congress authorizes Mr. Obama to use military force and what other measures Washington chooses to take in response to evidence proving that the Assad regime used poison gas.
In fact, however, the monks largely codified traditional Buddhist priestly norms of behaviour, and, at least in China, the rules were applied to residents of all authorized monasteries, whether affiliated with the Zen school or not.
There is a lingering debate about whether it authorizes the extra-legal detention of American citizens.
FACT, which acted on behalf of 53 state legislators, all Republican, said in a statement that the case was about whether Obergefell authorizes judges to determine custody policies in divorce proceedings for individual states.
The basic weakness of the administrative budget is that it is principally concerned with whether expenditure has been properly authorized, rather than whether money has been well spent.
"Discretion, whether authorized by statutes or by their silence, has been the main vehicle to this end.
They did not provide more detail about the contracts, including who authorized them or whether they had the ability to terminate them.
