31.   Without action, federal borrowing authority would also expire at midnight Friday.

32.   Congress needs to pass legislation to pay back dues to the United Nations and let the United States take part in new IMF borrowing authority.

33.   Some temporary extensions of federal spending and borrowing authority, lots of finger-pointing, and some negotiations seem likely.

34.   Gingrich did not flinch, saying the House would not pass a bill expanding borrowing authority without concessions in the ongoing budget negotiations.

35.   A related dispute has pushed the government to the edge of its borrowing authority.

36.   By doing so, Republican leaders ended a bid to use government borrowing authority as leverage for its legislative program.

37.   Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin announced a series of measures that included increasing government borrowing authority in federal retirement funds.