The budget debacle has overshadowed Congress's other genuine accomplishments.

He blamed "management style" for last month's budget debacle.

"The budget debacle was pretty hard on us," he said.

Many Republicans said the President's effort to shift the blame for the budget debacle to Democrats was not believable to most voters.

With the budget debacle and the midterm election behind him, President Bush's overall standing improved.

This particular swindle would come back to haunt all concerned, but not before the spectacular budget debacle of October 1990.

Lost in the turmoil over the budget debacle on Friday night was a joint communiqué issued by the leaders that their constitution could one day be carried out.

The whole budget debacle has badly eroded our ability to speak out that way.

Until Tuesday night, the budget debacle had been best symbolized by the lowering of the state's credit rating.

But the budget debacle has worsened the situation, shifting attention to economic issues at the worst possible moment for the Republicans.