11.   A budget bill deserves to be expedited especially because the national budget has a direct bearing on the daily lives of the citizenry.

12.   All told, the amount of foreign aid that has been coming in is equal to the national budget.

13.   But by Thursday, those ambitions had met with the hard reality of the national budget.

14.   But it did elicit pledges from many to redirect national budgets into established programs.

15.   But the judiciary can play only a small part in the effort to balance the national budget.

16.   But the difference is that the FCA can give advice to government and the lawmakers, and its officials participate in the process of compiling a national budget.

17.   But with Congress concerned about balancing the national budget, the District has to compete for attention with all the other budgetary issues.

18.   Can they impose the fiscal restraints on the national budget they always pretended to favor?

19.   Clinton says that her plan would set aside part of the national budget surplus to preserve Social Security in its current form.

20.   Congressional Republicans have taken Social Security benefits and defense allocations off the table as they consider how to balance the national budget.