51.   Until last month, Dole could have been called the essential Midwestern conservative, a deficit hawk who advocated that the government not spend more than it took in.

52.   Your hard line on Saddam -- send back those two American hostages or face real consequences -- dovetails with being a deficit hawk on seemingly untouchable farm subsidies.

53.   A moderate and a deficit hawk, Robb and several other rising Democratic stars began to wrest their party from the left and guide it toward the center.

54.   Bateman was known as a deficit hawk, and he fought for a balanced budget.

55.   Bateman was a deficit hawk and fought for a balanced budget.