1.   And that is a large part of the huge budget fight between Congress and the White House that is threatening to shut the government down once again.

2.   Archer took a back seat to Speaker Newt Gingrich and others during the bruising budget fights of the last Congress.

3.   Armey had said over the weekend Republicans still intended to use the debt limit as a weapon in the budget fight with Clinton.

4.   A. Because Congress and the president are carrying on three separate budget fights at one time.

5.   But he said he will not give it any serious thought until the current budget fight is over.

6.   But he shows little sign, in the coming budget fight, of cutting the other things that government now does.

7.   But his proposals disappeared in the budget fight between the White House and the new Republican majorities in Congress.

8.   But this year, health care has effectively been taken out of the budget fight.

9.   But those differences are so vast, and the politics of the budget fight are so explosive, that the chances of a quick resolution are remote at best.

10.   But while the president recently compared the budget fight with the speaker to the Alamo, the two men are not in a titanic struggle to the death.