"While we still face fiscal challenges, I believe our worst days are over."

For these reasons, among others, Medicare presents a great fiscal challenge over the long term.

There won't be any agreement on addressing America's long-term fiscal challenges before 2013.

Growth in spending on health care programs remains the central fiscal challenge facing the nation.

"And in light of the fiscal challenges that we're all facing, everyone needs to look from top to bottom to find ways to reduce costs."

Facing that truth is not a fiscal challenge, it's a political one.

With the fiscal challenges currently facing the country, the need for such courage has never been greater.

The fiscal and economic challenges facing our nation are immense.

I will continue to support measures that address our nation's fiscal challenges.

The state, he said, "has met the greatest single fiscal challenge of its 200 years."