1.   Any macroeconomic fiscal policy would, therefore, have to be carried out through the federal budget.

2.   Clinton and congressional Republicans have been at odds over a plan to balance the federal budget in seven years.

3.   Congress and the President are still at loggerheads over how to balance the federal budget.

4.   Congress remains in a stalemate over the federal budget.

5.   Dole has pledged to balance the federal budget and cut taxes.

6.   Even in cities which generally fared well in the face of federal budget cuts, the impacts in these areas were significant.

7.   Given federal budget constraints, though, large-scale prescribed burns are pretty unlikely.

8.   He has a plan to balance the federal budget.

9.   He was preparing the federal budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

10.   In fact, the federal budget is designed to deflect responsibility away from politicians.