Congress is moving through its second budget cycle without a permanent leader at the agency.

What has now emerged in most authorities is a budget cycle that includes some or all of the following features.

Will you please ensure that this request is put before the appropriate committee as part of the coming budget cycle.

By his calculations, the state could find itself $700 million in the red before this budget cycle ends.

And what will it do in the annual budget cycle next spring to finance the cost of continuing programs?

It takes a bit more than one budget cycle to get us down to the spending levels we want.

New York needs a biennial budget cycle, as 20 other states have.

And nobody should expect that this will occur in the course of one budget cycle.

Mr President, we are at the start of the budget cycle.

This effort ought to be completed by the end of the year, in time to influence the next budget cycle.