11.   A proposal by the budget committee to double the annual tax on personal belongings, which includes equities, also weighed on stocks.

12.   After that, he said, the budget committee would have to find the money.

13.   But budget committees in both the House and the Senate have approved fiscal plans that reduce AmeriCorps funding to zero.

14.   But he has already made plans to join the parliamentary budget committee and has evidently thought deeply about his new responsibilities.

15.   Conrad provided only an outline of his plan, saying the details would be released when he introduces it in the budget committee on Wednesday.

16.   Commenting on the parliamentary impasse over the budget bill, Kubo said he has no intention of forcing a vote in the lower house budget committee.

17.   Hashimoto roiled the market when he told the upper house budget committee that temporary deficit financing was unavoidable.

18.   He heads the budget committee of the U.S. Judicial Conference, the policy-making body of the federal judiciary.

19.   He said the fiscal blueprint he will submit to the budget committee Tuesday will rely solely on spending cuts.

20.   He was referring to a budget conciliation committee made up of government officials and parliamentary leaders, and which had reached a preliminary compromise.