To control other outlays, state officials have adopted various techniques: eliminating programs, consolidating agencies, freezing spending or hiring, delaying payments.

Republicans insisted that any emergency spending bill include a provision aimed at preventing Government shutdowns during budget fights by freezing spending at current levels.

He has called for freezing spending at 2008 levels, extending the Bush tax cuts for all income brackets, and reviewing all government programs for places to reduce spending.

The report criticizes the Bush administration for freezing spending on bilingual and migrant education, and cutting money for other programs used by Latinos.

Even before yesterday's announcement, the state had already identified $64 million in budget savings, which were primarily achieved by freezing spending during the next month.

It also suggested freezing total spending at $136 billion, the same level as this year, for hundreds of unspecified Government programs without saying which ones should get increases and which decreases.

Veterans' Issues Mr. Franks frequently attacks the Clinton administration for freezing spending for veterans' health benefits, and promises to make increased financing his first priority.

The old Alice Rivlin would have endorsed our Republican alternative that gets the deficit under control by freezing spending and not raising taxes.

The governor called for freezing spending for prekindergarten classes, reducing class sizes in elementary schools, and a package of related programs.

To reduce the deficit, administration officials are essentially freezing spending for domestic discretionary programs for the second year in a row.