21.   -- A reduced federal deficit, but not a balanced budget amendment.

22.   -- Eliminating the federal deficit.

23.   -- Reduce tariffs, adding to the federal deficit.

24.   A mailer last week mentioned legislation MacKay supported as a congressman a decade ago to freeze Social Security benefits for a year to help reduce the federal deficit.

25.   A recent ABC-Washington Post poll found a majority of respondents would rather fully fund Medicare than eliminate the federal deficit.

26.   After all, he spent five years as House Budget Committee chairman with the vexing problem of trying to control the federal deficit.

27.   But Armey argues that federal deficits will return unless the U.S. economy starts growing quickly again.

28.   But he quickly added that it must not worsen the federal deficit.

29.   But it is unlikely to make even a modest contribution toward erasing the federal deficit.

30.   But one year later he broke ranks with the supply-siders and pushed a tax increase to reduce the federal deficits that had already begun to accumulate.