But in the view of many Democrats, the economy that Mr. Clinton inherited in 1993 was little more than a shell, its strength hollowed out by the strain that rapidly growing deficits were creating.
A deficit is created when the country's import bill is bigger than its earnings from exports.
At the end of the day my constituents and their children and grandchildren will be on the hook for the deficit being created by this majority and they deserve to their fair share of federal spending".
Thirty-nine dofains of binary health deficit were created from questionnaire data and clinical tests covering a range of aspects of physiological and mental health (Additional file 1: Table S1).
The first is the medium-term deficit, which was created by the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the 2003 Medicare drug plan, the Bush tax cuts, the recession and the government's responses, like the stimulus.
All of the 'fiscal cliff' discussions have centered on how to cut government spending on public programs or raise enough revenues to diminish the current deficit that was created by too much borrowing over the last decade -- to pay for two wars, the Bush tax cuts, and consequent Great Recession that diminished revenues further.
The deficit-reduction task force was created as part of the August deal to end Congress' standoff on raising the debt ceiling.
The rules themselves are not new: they recap the ceilings set in Maastricht 20 years ago when the euro was created, with deficits limited to 3 percent of gross domestic product and cumulative debt eventually held to 60 percent of G.D.P. Now, though, those formulas will have teeth.
Democratic Congressional leaders called for adding job creation to the mandate of the special Congressional committee that was created by the deficit reduction deal to recommend up to $1.5 trillion in deficit reductions over a decade.
Mr. Kyl was also the chief Republican negotiator in the effort to prevent the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, the party's point man on the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, and the Republican leadership's voice in a succession of fruitless deficit reduction talks before the committee was created.
