1.   Clinton is expected to address budget issues in his State of the Union speech Tuesday, and he presents his budget Thursday.

2.   For a new chancellor, presenting a budget for an unpopular government, it was the best he could do.

3.   The budget was presented by Bush in January.

4.   As I present our budget requests to Congress, I recognize my duty to explain our plans and priorities with a logic Americans can embrace.

5.   At the council meeting at which the budget was presented, one white councilman pointed out that for those very reasons Mandela had avoided raising national taxes.

6.   All that will be clear, White House aides say, when Bush presents a budget later this month.

7.   Brown has refused to name the companies and said they would not even be identified individually when the budget was presented.

8.   Bush also called on Congress to restrain spending this year even though the president presented a budget that calls for substantial increases in defense and homeland security.

9.   But as the budget was presented in the House of Commons this afternoon, the Liberals glowed confidently behind Finance Minister Paul Martin.

10.   But now the district has about two weeks before it is to present its budget, and must decide which big ticket items to skip.