With the matching funds, he would hit the $137,500 spending cap for the primary.

He said his group had not taken a position on a spending cap.

The budget was adopted 35 to 1, on time and under the state's constitutional spending cap.

The spending cap would force distribution of the fund through a general tax reduction.

But the main focus in Congress now is on the spending caps.

And some in Congress are talking about trying to break down the spending caps.

It would have a spending cap of $600,000 a year for the first two years.

This growth is slightly higher than would have been allowed under a spending cap the Governor proposed last year.

The immediate problem for the coming year centers on the spending caps set out in the budget law.

Legislative action would be required to extend the spending cap beyond 1993.