41.   On the one hand, the deal makers severely tightened the spending caps that regulate spending that is subject to annual appropriations.

42.   Opponents said offsetting the costs would defeat the purpose of an emergency spending bill, which does not have to abide by spending caps, according to budget rules.

43.   Opponents said the bill contained misleading gimmicks to dodge the spending caps.

44.   Opponents said the bill contained misleading gimmicks intended to dodge the spending caps.

45.   Perhaps that is why Weld is calling for a spending cap on the election.

46.   Rather than being guaranteed funding to meet the federal standards for each child, states would be trying to feed the same or more mouths under a spending cap.

47.   Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici said Republicans will try to compromise, but he stressed that they are restrained by previously approved spending caps.

48.   Soboroff has rejected city matching funds and the spending cap for his own campaign.

49.   Strict spending caps, which have helped create the surplus, may be broken in the process.

50.   That money is designated as an emergency appropriation, meaning it does not count under the spending caps.