But we are set to meet our budget rules.
Clinton called for a return to "pay as you go" budget rules.
Under current budget rules, that $100 million increase would have to be offset by cuts in other domestic programs.
Congress's current budget rules also impose a cap on international spending, including foreign aid.
Under the budget rules, the bill would have forced large cuts in education, health care, and environmental protection.
A real deficit-reduction plan would call for a return to the budget rules in effect from 1990 to 2001.
No one has expressed opposition to the proposal, and under traditional budget rules, it would probably become law.
They achieved the agreement in part by bending the budget rules.
Finally, look for budget rules and rhetoric to change, although it is hard to predict how.
The budget rules are aimed at shrinking the growth of the Federal deficit.