21.   The government is close to running out of borrowing authority.

22.   The government will run out of borrowing authority around the end of October.

23.   The mayor urged the state legislature to swiftly approve his request to establish a separate borrowing authority for the city called the Infrastructure Finance Authority.

24.   The mayor plans to circumvent the limit by getting the state legislature to approve a separate borrowing authority called the Infrastructure Finance Authority.

25.   The postponement had been expected since it became clear last week that Congress would not act in time to create new government borrowing authority.

26.   The U.S. Treasury has sufficient borrowing authority to cover government financing needs through January, Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin said today.

27.   This year, however, Republicans in Congress are threatening to withhold borrowing authority until the Clinton administration agrees to dramatically slim down the federal bureaucracy.

28.   Tuesday, Gingrich charged that Rubin was manipulating the date when the United States would run out of borrowing authority.

29.   Until the debt-limit extension is signed into law, the government will be forced to rely on stopgap borrowing authority, which Congress has yet to provide.

30.   While congressional Republicans are willing to provide a short-term increase in borrowing authority, it would last only a few weeks, Domenici said.