81.   He also said he would offer a Cabinet post to Alexander Zhukov, currently head of the Duma budget committee.

82.   Holbrooke said the deal was set, but the U.N. budget committee negotiated into the early hours Saturday trying to wrap up the final settlement terms.

83.   If the Fed had acted more quickly, it could have created more problems, Greenspan told the budget committee.

84.   Levitte spoke at a press briefing after making the same announcement to the U.N. budget committee, which is currently debating reform of the scale of assessments.

85.   Last year, the congressional budget committee was found to be padding the budget and taking kickbacks from companies awarded federal contracts.

86.   Now some fear that its fate will be decided by six members of a budget conference committee.

87.   Obuchi and Takahashi discussed ways the government might support the merger, Obuchi told an upper house budget committee Friday morning.

88.   On Monday, the U.N. budget committee met behind closed doors to discuss the portion of the reform package dealing with member dues and finances.

89.   One of these, the budget committee, recommended Thursday that the Cabinet withdraw its budget-cutting plan from parliament and make the reductions on its own.

90.   Rivlin and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta were to meet with the senior Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate budget committees Tuesday.