In FY 2000, for example, the real level of Defense
budget authority closely matched levels in the late 1950s.
* Establishing
budget authority for reform of the Medicare program
Budget authority may be made available for obligation for a one-year, multiyear, or no-year period.
The bill provides $55.9 billion in
budget authority for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
In recent decades, the real level of O&M
budget authority tended to rise even as force levels fell.
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The $779 million in discretionary
budget authority, not including pension payments and some other mandatory items, would leave the agency's budget essentially flat after adjusting for inflation.
Legislators shifted revenue-aligned
budget authority (RABA) from the states for $423 million of the total.
There are multiple funding requests that would help local schools meet their many challenges in President Clinton's fiscal 2001 education budget, which calls for $4.5 billion in new
budget authority for the Education Department's discretionary programs, a 12.6 percent increase over fiscal 2000 spending.
The House provided $285 billion in "
budget authority" and $276 billion in actual outlays.
Global Climate Change Initiative:
Budget Authority,