61.   Another uncertainty is whether the ruling will affect the annual budget fight over the organization, which distributes millions of dollars in federal money to local legal aid groups.

62.   Bracing for the budget fight ahead, Bush summoned GOP legislative leaders to the White House for a strategy session hours before the address.

63.   But others have said they believe Bush would be better off getting a fresh start without lingering budget fights.

64.   But increasingly, the question was becoming whether the budget fight would be finished next week or force a lame-duck session of Congress after the elections.

65.   But neither the Republican-led Congress nor the president was ready to let the budget fight produce a federal shutdown.

66.   By signing the Pentagon measure, Clinton avoided escalating and prolonging the budget fight further and intensifying bitter feelings between the parties.

67.   Clinton says Republicans buckled to special interests in budget fight.

68.   Financial markets reacted badly to the budget fight.

69.   GOP sponsors said they were mainly trying to head off the end-of-year budget fight that almost always results in sharply higher government spending.

70.   House Republicans expected to meet Tuesday morning to gauge their feelings about the budget fight.