The budget authorization is broken down as follows:

The cost of many weapons is growing faster than the Pentagon's budget authorization of $442 billion, which has increased almost 35 percent above inflation in the last six years.

Callers to the Federal Job Information line heard this recorded message: "The system is temporarily unavailable because of lack of budget authorization.

It will resume as soon as budget authorization is granted.

In two years, the current budget authorization ends, and the board will look at how much money it can distribute.

"Now I need budget authorization to commission a geographic profile based on this cluster of cases so we can develop viable suspects," he concluded.

The current budget authorization for the futures agency will expire on Sept. 30.

The measures, included in a budget authorization for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, are part of a broader highway financing bill.

The treaty clearly states that research is integral to internal policies and that for such budgetary matters, joint budget authorization by Parliament and the Council applies.

In 1980 the Federal Trade Commission shut down when its budget authorization expired.