The 2009-2010 budget plan included $5 billion from this source, and the measure would also have authorized similar borrowing in future years.

The measure no longer authorizes challenges to restrictions on industrial or commercial uses of property.

The pending measure authorizes a nonpartisan commission to make the difficult decisions.

In addition to $580 million for state education block grants, the measure authorizes new programs for next year that could cost up to $1.4 billion.

Construction of the memorial must begin by the end of 1991 under a measure authorizing the project that was signed into law in late 1986.

The sanctions approved today were part of a $9.7 billion measure authorizing State Department activities for fiscal years 1990 and 1991.

Another measure would authorize New York City to raise its income tax.

In addition, the measure authorizes $500 million for transitional work and education services to welfare recipients while the new program is put in place.

The measure would also authorize sending an unspecified number of Turkish troops into northern Iraq.

The measure, intended to prevent ballot disputes like those that bedeviled the 2000 presidential election, authorizes $3.9 billion in federal aid to states.