One of those problems is that the bill as now envisioned will almost certainly breach the budget ceilings.

He said the President's budget was realistic and did meet the budget ceiling.

Everyone needs to rethink the budget ceilings enacted in 1997.

No Republican voted for the 1993 deal, which again raised taxes and continued budget ceilings.

As part of that revision, the regular budget ceiling was reduced from 25% to 22%.

He also set a budget ceiling at 15 million dollars.

With no budget ceiling to worry about, the bill passed easily.

Note that I am not looking to abolish the budget ceilings.

The budget ceiling is simply too low. Costs have increased every year without any new resources being allocated.

For this reason I have serious doubts about the proposal to maintain the present budget ceiling into the next perspective.