31.   Then he suggested Maybe tax cuts could be deferred until a balanced budget could be agreed to.

32.   Up to the Second World War it was normal for governments to run a balanced budget.

33.   More significantly, however, the package departed from recent Republican budgets in that it abandoned any prospect of achieving a balanced budget in the medium term.

34.   Opponents of the amendment had proposed a bill, couched in almost identical terms, which would have compelled the President to present an annual balanced budget.

35.   A perspective of well working markets and a balanced budget make the competing schools of thought more attractive to this group.

36.   Government adhered to the prevailing orthodoxy that balanced budgets were necessary and desirable and that deficit financing was neither.

37.   This means that a policy of increasing government spending but maintaining a balanced budget will have a net expansionary effect on the economy.

38.   Already, the Senate has killed one major element of the contract, the balanced budget amendment.

39.   Although the Coalition was dedicated to promoting a balanced budget amendment, the ad never mentioned it.

40.   Although he has no legal role in passing amendments, Clinton worked hard to defeat the balanced budget amendment in the last Congress.