It would provide a responsible path to a seven-year balanced budget.

"On the big issues - seven-year budget - both the House and Senate are very much in sync."

Mr. Clinton said today, as he did on Tuesday night, that a seven-year balanced budget was still attainable.

Those cuts, none very controversial, leave a gap of about $250 billion between the Administration's most recent seven-year budget proposal and the latest Republican plan.

Finally, they dragged President Clinton into proposing a seven-year balanced budget himself.

We all talk about the fact that rural development has been the greatest loser of the seven-year budget.

You even threw out his seven-year budget - his precious rescue attempt - with an overwhelming vote on the Böge report.

We ask, and we expect, that the tasks of reviewing the seven-year budget for this area begin immediately.

Earlier, when we were thinking about 2010, it was with a seven-year budget in mind.

We are going to verify the strategy in the European Union's seven-year budget from 2014.