Authorization bill

[4] According to a reference glossary provided by the United States Senate, an authorization act is "A law that establishes or continues one or more Federal agencies or programs, establishes the terms and conditions under which they operate, authorizes the enactment of appropriations, and specifies how appropriated funds are to be used.

"[5] Authorization bills create, modify, and/or extend agencies, programs, and/or programs for a limited amount of time (by including an expiration date) or make them perpetual (without expiration date).

Authorization bills are part of an authorization-appropriation process created by House and Senate rules governing spending.

[6] Agencies and programs must have been authorized before they can have funds appropriated to them according to the rules of the House and (to a lesser extent) the Senate.

[4] The rules are meant "to ensure that substantive and financial issues are subjected to separate and independent analysis.

[9] Authorizing bills fall under the jurisdiction of most of the other standing committees of the House and Senate.

[7] For example, in 2013, the 113th United States Congress passed the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Pub.

[11] The incoming second Trump administration identified some of this $516 billion as waste to be eliminated by the Department of Government Efficiency.

This was done because the authorizing committees "wanted greater control of and oversight over executive and presidential activities, especially in view of the interbranch tensions that stemmed from the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration.