In the face of an overcrowding crisis, Governor Chiles is seeking to build more prisons despite Florida's strained budget.

This promise to our active duty members and our veterans must be kept, even as we face strained budgets and calls for austerity.

The Saudis always pay cash for their arms purchases, so the sales would have no effect on the strained American military budget.

However, local governments see as the bill as another potential blow to their already strained budgets.

And they would add millions of dollars to a deeply strained budget.

Kerrey takes credit for balancing a strained budget without a permanent tax increase.

Though some $10 million a year would probably fill the bill for civil legal aid in Florida, just $500,000 is in the state's strained budget at this time.

"The state already has a difficult enough time attending to its existing responsibilities due to a strained budget and limited personnel."

Rather, we will see an enormous increase in morbidity, which will place even greater burdens on a strained budget.

These concerns, compounded by strained budgets, have wrought other changes in the office party.