He said that there was authorization for his unit to rent pack animals when they were "essential to mission accomplishment".
Not included in the spending plan was authorization for a new 30-year lease to the Maersk Sealand container shipping company that would house its major East Coast terminal in expanded and improved quarters at the Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey.
In the U.S. budget case, there are authorization bills for spending and debt to be negotiated.
A further measure that Mr. Schäuble has been seeking since the spring is authorization to troll for information on the computers of terror suspects; he estimates there would be fewer than a dozen cases a year.
"We are glad the president is seeking authorization for any military action in Syria in response to serious, substantive questions being raised," House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a statement.
The most frequently used legal authority for military action is the authorization for the use of military force that Congress passed soon after 9/11.
The First Amendment is not authorization for religious entities or individuals claiming a sincere religious objection to the law to impose their religious beliefs on society.
Mr. Gates noted that there was no authorization for military force in a United Nations Security Council resolution, passed Saturday, which imposes sanctions and an arms embargo against Libya.
Although the decision does not invalidate the ordinance on its merits, it is an authorization for broad, wholesale attacks on rent-control regulation".
Democrats in the Assembly like Richard Brodsky of Westchester County and Richard N. Gottfried, who represents much of the city's far West Side, complained that it was "stealth authorization for building a Jets stadium".
