So, contrary to the oft-repeated view, real spending growth for regular education has been modest.

He has no caps on local or school district spending growth.

Perhaps the best that Congress and the Administration can do is to hold spending growth while revenues rise.

A big issue for state government is to give towns the tools to constrict their own spending growth.

Maintaining overall spending growth at less than the inflation rate is likely to require substantial cuts in some areas.

Claire is concerned about the size of the federal budget and thinks we need to stop rapid spending growth.

Annual spending growth for future budgets was cut to 2.8% from the 5.9% that had been standard for many years.

He insisted, for example, that keeping spending growth under the inflation rate was of paramount importance.

It also imposed a 5 percent cap on its spending growth.

But by 2014, health care spending growth is expected to reach 8.3%.