61.   We can expect the same old arguments about tax cuts and spending priorities and the same old bad tempers as before.

62.   We disagreed with this regressive approach and argued that the tax reductions were too large in light of competing spending priorities and the uncertainty of projected surpluses.

63.   White House aides later said the important consideration was spending priorities, not the number of years.

64.   With less than a year left in office, Clinton budget officials argued that they nonetheless can lay the groundwork for spending priorities well into the future.

65.   Younger voters do it too, by putting education at the top of their spending priorities.

66.   Bush said Earley has made education a priority and shown he can set clear spending priorities.

67.   Bush stresses that growing federal surpluses make it possible to give Americans greater tax relief and still protect Social Security and Medicare and meet spending priorities.

68.   But when they tried the same argument on Putin, he simply told them to reorder their spending priorities.

69.   Changes he could recommend might include cutbacks in weapons programs or a reordering of spending priorities.

70.   Clinton accused Republicans of engineering a budget crisis to further their spending priorities.