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The bill would authorize $300 million annually to help utilities pay for much-needed upgrades.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

The GAO recommended that Congress temporarily limit nonemergency sales from the reserve and authorize a funding mechanism to help the Energy Department cover ongoing or periodic costs for maintaining the SPR.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

JPMorgan said it would authorize a new $50 billion buyback program.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

But that agreement doesn’t authorize lawsuits for money against individual officers, Gorsuch wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

We debated the housing situation, the best means of forcing the city to authorize open hearings on conditions among Negroes.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

The administration argues that it has legal basis for the project under a statute that authorizes the president to manage the “improvement” or “alteration” of the White House Executive Residence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

By contrast, the Constitution explicitly authorizes Congress to establish federal agencies and define the scope of their mandate.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Environmentalists legally challenged the new regulation, which authorizes provincial governments to redefine protected areas as a way to expand mining activity.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

They invoked a provision of the Clean Water Act that authorizes states to require additional permits on a case-by-case basis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

It also says the Bishop of Jerusalem of the Arab Episcopal Church authorizes it.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

It has been a long road: Congress authorized such agreements with the Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act of 2005.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

District Court Judge Katherine Menendez dismissed the case, ultimately finding that Congress never authorized the attorney general to access voting records and documents that state officials create themselves.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

The environmental initiative was shelved in 2013 by president Rafael Correa, who authorized crude extraction in the Yasuni National Park after acknowledging the plan's economic failure.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

When the BBC’s legal team did exactly that, Secret Service counsel Troy Epstein flatly declared the agency was neither authorized to accept service on the family’s behalf nor willing to help facilitate it.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

H. G. Wells’s literary agent told the press that he never authorized changes to the original story that could cause such alarm.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

The mosquito abatement district model has its roots in the early 20th century, and Utah was the third state to pass legislation authorizing the agencies.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

He added that the statute authorizing the president to remove a Federal Reserve Board member for cause didn’t require a notice or a hearing.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

The 9th Circuit upheld that measure in principle, but said California went too far by requiring the owner to post a prominent sign expressly authorizing guns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Before authorizing the transfer, though, Large told Waldorf she had to say specific words.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

The fourth was a gesture toward the northern interests, authorizing Congress to levy a tax on slave imports designed to discourage the practice without prohibiting it.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis