In April that interest was increased to the current 52 percent.

As more nations joined, the American share declined to its current 25 percent of the regular budget.

Unemployment is likely to stay near its current 6 percent next year, keeping raises moderate.

The new proportion would be 20 percent, up from the current 10 percent.

That is above the current 28 percent but below the 33 percent in the House bill.

Oil's share of total energy used would decline from the current 40 percent to about 36 percent in the same period, he said.

Those states would pay 40 percent of Medicaid costs, rather than the current 50 percent.

The increase would have raised the combined state and county sales tax rate to 8.25 percent, from the current 7.75 percent.

A federal funds rate of 2.5 percent, far above the current 1 percent, might be reasonable.

There is absolutely no reason to expect inflation to rise above the current 3 percent.