61.   Daniels said that the administration would reassess its budget needs next year and work with Congress then to come up with new budget requests, if necessary.

62.   Discussing his new budget on Tuesday, Gov. George E. Pataki stood before a portrait of his favorite predecessor, Teddy Roosevelt, inviting inevitable comparisons.

63.   Democratic and Republican negotiators last night finally finished ironing out differences in those amendments, producing a new budget resolution ready for final congressional approval.

64.   Democrats in the Legislature criticized the new budget Friday for its reductions in taxes accompanied by slight increases in overall spending.

65.   During a White House briefing with reporters, Raines declined to lay out the specific economic assumptions underpinning the rosy new budget projections.

66.   Earlier Wednesday, Gingrich suggested Republicans and Clinton exchange new budget proposals on Friday.

67.   Even so, the new Clinton budget is becoming perilously like the GOP version.

68.   Federal law forbids other states to use the New York method, but the new budget bill would have allowed New York more leeway.

69.   For their part, top congressional aides said yesterday there may be no resumption of formal talks unless the administration comes up with a new budget proposal.

70.   For their part, top Republican congressional aides said yesterday there may be no resumption of formal talks unless the administration comes up with a new budget proposal.