And will you give the new director sweeping budget authority?

But the committee stopped short of using its budget authority to shut down the program.

Five years ago, none of the department's budget authority went toward renewing old contracts.

She said that if the intelligence director "did not have strong budget authority, we really would just be creating another level of bureaucracy."

The agreement reached by the two branches of the budget authority in July is a sound one.

You are a very important budget authority so please give us a chance in the future and really support us on that.

Now, the approval of the budget authority is required.

It has to involve the budget authority in those discussions.

It is our belief that the budget authority must not compromise either growth or employment.

I trust that the budget authorities will receive this request positively.