The vote authorized an additional $300 million to get the program going.

The vote also authorized spending $750,000 for the engineering study to verify the cost estimates.

Saturday's vote authorizes the President to go to war.

Yesterday's vote authorizes the temple to sell its smaller affiliate in Oakland to buy land for the new site.

Mr. Rowland left the building at 3:30 p.m., just before the final vote authorizing the impeachment committee.

The 1992 vote authorizing the bond issue - to be repaid by raising property taxes - came after residents had voted no in 1990 and 1991.

The guild spokesman, Rick Glaub, said the vote authorized the union's national board to call a strike "at its discretion."

Mr. Hundt was to seek a vote authorizing the investigation at a meeting of the commission scheduled for this Thursday.

The vote authorized the drafting of a bonding proposal that would need the approval of village residents at a future referendum for which no date was set.

The vote did not create any new settlements or authorize the expansion of existing ones, though many Palestinians and Israelis expect expansion to be an inevitable result.