1.   Congress could not come up with an agreement on a spending plan for next year.

2.   Court Decisions from previous budget deadlocks keep most money flowing without a spending plan.

3.   Will the new spending plan keep the budget balanced for any longer than a year?

4.   Would not that be threatened only by the advent of a Labour Government, with their profligate spending plans?

5.   The Prime Minister and his cabinet were today continuing their meeting aimed at thrashing out a spending plan for the coming year.

6.   Once the spending plans are established, the necessary finance is sought, essentially through taxation.

7.   The Health department is also faced with the problem of freezing its spending plans at the moment.

8.   Their refusal to curtail spending plans and to increase the burden on poll tax payers is expected.

9.   He stressed that none of the secret information about health issues or spending plans were kept in the safe.

10.   Also, business managers uniformly revised their capital spending plans for this fiscal year.