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The huge difference is that this budget is more reality-based.

The fix doesn't necessarily have to be on the Social Security side but may be on the tax or budget side.

The five-year plan is our near-term 'do list.' It lists the projects likely to be included in our budget and built in the next couple of years. People wondering when that road will be widened, when that signal they heard was going in will actually occur, when a rumored new road might be built, can look in this document to see if it's going to happen soon.

It's not a real exciting budget. It's fairly routine business this year. As much as possible, we tried to limit department requests to current budget levels. There was some give and take on that because of salary changes.

It's not finished, ... We will fine-tune the budget between the next workshop and the final reading.

It's not a perfect budget in the least, but it's one we can support. We're encouraging people to go out and vote yes.

David Cox

Eighty-five percent of our current operating budget is dedicated to personnel expenditures.

After the third budget and into the third (year), and (they're) far, far short of meeting that promise.

Wayne Allard

Despite an incredibly tight budget year, we still managed to meet our obligations to provide local governments with this critical funding.

The numbers are here. The budget is credible.

That's practically business as usual. Given Michigan's recession and Detroit's past budget difficulties, it's not what I'd hoped for. But there does seem to be some restraint here, and that's a silver lining. Thirty-five million is a tiny increase in regards to the budget.

That is, indeed, the true budget we have today,

Jeff Bingaman

It's clear that the president and his advisers share our concern about the prospects of losing our competitive edge in the global economy. It's my hope that the administration's budget reflects this concern by making a significant increase in our nation's investment in science and technology.

It's a lot easier budget year than we thought. For the time being, it looks like an improved fiscal outlook.

the long-run budget impact, despite all the screaming and hand-wringing about this...is really very small, very modest.

John Miller

All the money in the budget will be spent here.

Jack O'Connell

At a time when our nation should be investing in the future of our students as never before, this budget cuts education funding for the first time in a decade.

All of us are facing the budget pinch. We had to cut our materials. We had to cut it three percent last year. We really don't know what's going to happen this year.

They have been very conscious to keep the budget in check.

They have a limited budget and have to manage funds very carefully.

This first year will need to be lean and mean ? we will be on an extremely streamlined budget and won't have as many programs in the beginning.

This budget will have the most significant tax cut package in over a decade. Certainly, we think that's good news.

This budget reconciliation is a farce. What they want to do is cut our programs so they can put together the money for the tax cut they want to do next.

This budget has deceived the common man. The tax system is regressive. Heavy concessions have been granted to the corporate sector and spending on education and healthcare has not been increased to the expected levels.

This is about preventing a dangerous budget from passing, not getting (legislative) seats.

This is a maintenance budget that provides the current level of services that we offer now. This budget is not all doom and gloom because there are some things within it that we should be excited about, but we felt that if further cuts were made, they would have a direct effect on our classrooms and town services like police and fire.

There were no nice or nasty surprises in the budget so market reaction was quite muted.

Robert Reischauer

The Republicans would lose the cover they have from the President being on board. They'd have to fashion a budget resolution on their own.

There may be a couple of surprises in the budget but for the most part I think they are going to play it reasonably safe and not fool with expectations too much. And if that's the case, then the market movement shouldn't be large.

It moves cost from capital expense that needs to be depreciated to the operating budget, so it's easier to budget for.

This is the most positive budget I've presented in at least six years since the Carnahan administration. It is very, very preliminary at this point and there are sure to be some changes but it is looking good.

Maria Cantwell

This is too important a question to slide into the budget bill, ... We are setting a very, very dangerous precedent.

This is a very strange appropriations year. We are dealing with a surplus and budget cuts. The question is who is gong to take the pain for spending cuts?