21.   -- Under procedures adopted a few years ago, the House automatically agrees to raise the statutory ceiling on the federal debt when it approves its annual budget resolution.

22.   Administrators said the increase would bring in nearly a tenth of the annual budget.

23.   Bush wants to replace the annual budget haggling with bi-annual budget haggling.

24.   But New York City would have to pay for its share out of its annual budget.

25.   But the district was doomed in the end by fighting and bitterness, especially over local payments from property taxes to its annual budget.

26.   But they have conducted just as many successful negotiations, particularly over the annual budget.

27.   Cabinet ministers are expected to approve the proposal on Friday and details will be worked out after the annual budget is passed by the Parliament next month.

28.   Camden fails to collect nearly a third of its real estate taxes, but its payroll and benefits eat up two-thirds of the annual budget.

29.   Clinton noted that Thomas Jefferson had agreed to the Louisiana Purchase for a sum that was roughly the total annual budget for the federal government at the time.

30.   Clinton repeatedly has called on Congress not to spend the annual federal budget surpluses until it saves Social Security from going broke.