61.   If the limits remain, Congress will have to cut billions of dollars deeper into domestic programs next year and the year after that.

62.   Imagine a country, a democracy, with a domestic program that is increasingly costly and socially disruptive.

63.   In addition, the administration was able to protect from the budget ax about a dozen domestic spending programs, some of which have been frequent targets of Republicans.

64.   In an interesting admission, Rep. Tom DeLay effectively acknowledged that the GOP never intended to use the budget surplus next year to avoid budget cuts in domestic programs.

65.   In the end, they all got money, resulting in a record total for education, health and other domestic programs.

66.   Instead, Corzine wanted to talk about spending money on domestic programs.

67.   It was particularly difficult to show how adequate spending on popular domestic programs will be impossible while the White House is seeking virtually unlimited funding for the Pentagon.

68.   It would use the money to soften the blow against Medicare, agriculture and other domestic programs.

69.   It would use too much of the federal surplus and leave too little for domestic programs.

70.   It would deprive the government of revenue that could be used to finance education and other domestic programs, Clinton said.