1.   A balanced budget amendment is often offered as a solution.

2.   A balanced budget meant increasing tax rates and reducing public expenditure.

3.   And at this point not even the most optimistic swamis are predicting a balanced budget until well into the twenty-first century.

4.   And this probably explains why the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution seemed to be in trouble last week.

5.   Any balanced budget amendment has to have some exceptions and some implementation provisions.

6.   Archer suggested many of the reforms sought by Clinton were in the seven-year balanced budget package vetoed by the president.

7.   Congressional Republicans have made an increase in the debt ceiling contingent on a balanced budget agreement to their liking.

8.   Forbes also reiterated his call for a balanced budget amendment, but said his version would include a tax cut.

9.   Gingrich on Tuesday, for example, began reviving the notion of a balanced budget agreement with President Clinton.