Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 55 budget 55 budgets 48 budgeting 48 budget shortfalls 47 budget shortfall 47 budgetary 46 Budgets 46 legislators 45 overspending 45 Legislators 44 lawmakers 44 taxpayers 43 belt tightening 43 biennium 42 Republicans 42 Democrats 41 appropriations 41 overspend 41 pols 41 fiscal 40 shortfall 40 Dems 40 budget deficits 39 planners 39 shortfalls 39 Budget 39 spending 39 appropriations bills 39 Lawmakers 39 spenders 39 fiscally 39 NCLB 39 fiscally responsible 38 fiscally conservative 38 Medicaid 38 policymakers 38 savings 38 superintendents 38 furloughs 37 politicos 37 Tea Partiers 37 OMB 37 Fiscal 37 overspent 37 TABOR 37 frugality 37 CBO 37 deficits 37 Taxpayers 37 unfunded 36 cuts 36 Legislature 36 treasurers 36 districts 36 penny pinching 35 bureaucracies 35 stimulus 35 educators 35 Administrators 35 frugal 35 expenditures 35 actuaries 35 filers 35 checkbooks 35 earmarks 35 tax payers 35 furlough 35 Blue Dogs 35 ObamaCare 35 declining enrollment 35 administrators 34 GOP 34 staffs 34 pork barrel 34 auditors 34 librarians 34 deficit 34 projections 34 bureaucrats 34 balancing 34 unspent 34 retirees 34 discretionary spending 34 liberals 34 Great Recession 34 Budget Committee 34 tax 34 feds 34 staffers 34 underfunding 34 appropriation 33 chopping block 33 Rainy Day 33 Policymakers 33 conservatives 33 SCHIP 33 wasteful spending 33 budgeted 33 Appropriations Committee 33 pink slips 33 ideologues