Sentence examples for budgetary authority from inspiring English sources

That provision was put in place by the House, which feared losing budgetary authority over the patent office.

Beyond the sequester, the budgetary authority to keep the federal government operating runs out on March 27.

First, Congress must grant Mr. Ridge budgetary authority that would let him rein in the burgeoning federal terrorism-response bureaucracy.

Yet he does not have budgetary authority and can only make spending recommendations to the president's budget director.

Your support for the notion of a national homeland security agency with statutory and budgetary authority is very welcome.

For instance, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge should be granted budgetary authority immediately to tame offices that resist streamlining efforts.

By helping to increase Greek exports, the slumping euro is providing Greece's budgetary authorities the wherewithal for increasing tax revenues necessary for fiscal consolidation.

But Congress in recent years has invested real budgetary and administrative authority in the director's office, and Dr. Collins is the first to fully use these new powers.

Under the White House proposal, the intelligence director would have far more limited budgetary and personnel authority.

Clapper is only the fourth director of national intelligence, a position nominally atop the 16 intelligence agencies but without significant budgetary or operational authority over them.

There also needs to be a serious look at giving Tom Ridge's Office of Homeland Security real budgetary and operational authority over the functions now scattered in dozens of agencies.