1.   And while the budget negotiations are causing grief right now for front-running Sen.

2.   Clinton also alluded to the intractable ideological divide that led to the suspension of top-level budget negotiations.

3.   McCurry said he expects the issue to come up at budget negotiations with congressional Republicans.

4.   Of course much depends on how the current high stakes budget negotiations play out.

5.   We must not allow all these important objectives to be imperiled during the hurly-burly of budget negotiations.

6.   Which brings us to the snow job piling up around the budget negotiations themselves.

7.   Although the budget negotiations broke down last week, the Republican strategy prompted Clinton to produce a plan to balance the federal budget in seven years.

8.   Analysts widely believe the Fed will pass up the chance to reduce rates at itsnext meeting, because of uncertainty of the budget negotiations between President Clinton and Congress.

9.   And most voters now disapprove of the job he has done as Senate majority leader conducting stalemated budget negotiations with the Clinton administration.

10.   And the White House has indicated it will force Congress to stay in town until budget negotiations are complete.