41.   Rubin says Clinton will lay out his spending priorities early next year, most likely in his State of the Union speech before Congress in February.

42.   Some have switched their spending priorities.

43.   Some lawmakers are still angry at the idea that the White House now has enhanced power to make such judgments about congressional spending priorities.

44.   Such savings would be particularly useful now, as legislators try to meet spending priorities with the tightest state budget in years.

45.   That gives Clinton and congressional Republicans more time to negotiate spending priorities.

46.   The budget committees are wrangling over spending priorities.

47.   The Conservatives want to cut taxes and the Labour Party has higher spending priorities that it would finance with taxation.

48.   The drive for welfare reform, after all, has always been about spending priorities, as well as poverty, whether of adults or children.

49.   The Kennedy-Hatch bill will compete with dozens of other spending priorities once House and Senate conferees gather to work out their differences on the budget.

50.   The only way to end the deficit is for Congress to get down to the difficult work of establishing sensible spending priorities and eliminating waste.