1. The Congressional Budget Office says the federal deficit shows every sign of getting larger.

2. The federal deficit is at a 23-year low.

3. The federal deficit is at a 23-year low. Corporate earnings are generally strong.

4. With the federal deficit at $1.5 trillion, some voters are balking at politicians touting their record of bringing home the bacon.

5. Low interest rate rates and growing federal deficit deficits have weaken weakened the dollar.

6. And pressures to reduce the federal deficit will tighten the lid on defense spending.

7. When you hear some figure referred to as the federal deficit, that is after this convenient bit of jiggery-pokery.

8. Because the rest of the government borrows from it, it masks the size of the federal deficit.

9. Dole, by contrast, did best among voters who listed the federal deficit as their chief concern.

10. The Act would have forced across-the-board cutbacks if the federal deficit grew too high.

11. But Clinton showed that hundreds of federal programs will be on a strict diet during the struggle to eliminate the federal deficit.

12. Congress is currently considering whether to auction off the frequencies and using the proceeds to reduce the federal deficit.

13. "We are committed to taking measures to maintaining greater personal saving and to reducing the federal deficit to a sustainable level by 2013," Geithner said at the opening session of the talks.

14. NABE forecasters said they were more worried about the federal deficit than any other aspect of the economy, even though they expect it to shrink by $100 billion to $1.2 trillion next year.

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15. Recession and aggressive fiscal stimulus have hugely swollen the federal deficit.

16. The White House budget office on Tuesday lowered its estimate for this year's federal deficit.