As a country we are spending way beyond our means and there appears no political will to address the spending issues.

The task force did leave the back door open for someone else to take on the spending issue.

Everyone in Trenton has known for years that touching spending issues is political suicide, and they didn't need the task force report to remind them.

But they are not alone in seeing political benefit in returning to the spending issue.

Late in the afternoon, House and Senate negotiators announced that they had been more successful on another spending issue.

The spending issues may be the easiest to solve.

So, as a "liberal democrat" devoted to fiscal responsibility, what is the biggest spending issue in your book?

As with many women, my spending issues often reflected a negative self-image.

The spending issue is made more controversial by the secretive way the Government manages its reserves.

Human Services officials said his resignation had been planned long ago and that it has no relation to the spending issue.