1.   Because the rest of the government borrows from it, it masks the size of the federal deficit.

2.   But Clinton showed that hundreds of federal programs will be on a strict diet during the struggle to eliminate the federal deficit.

3.   Dole, by contrast, did best among voters who listed the federal deficit as their chief concern.

4.   New legislation will be put before Congress in the autumn, aimed at reducing the federal deficit.

5.   The Congressional Budget Office says the federal deficit shows every sign of getting larger.

6.   The budget envisaged a federal deficit of Can.

7.   When you hear some figure referred to as the federal deficit, that is after this convenient bit of jiggery-pokery.

8.   Already Congress is struggling to lower the huge federal deficit.

9.   An agreement that starts reducing the federal deficit would lessen the threat of inflation, which erodes the value of Treasury bonds.

10.   An argument might be made for some sort of balanced-budget amendment if the nation had a systemic federal deficit problem.