In his campaign manifesto, Mr. Clinton said he wanted to "establish an annual health budget for the nation to limit both public and private expenditures."

The Senate, more lawyer-friendly than the House and less fervent about the campaign manifesto, is expected to seek significant changes in parts of the bills.

She keeps a copy of the Contract With America, the Republicans' 1994 campaign manifesto, prominently on her desk.

The budget is essentially Bush's campaign manifesto.

Democratic leaders may dislike the comparison with the Republicans' campaign manifesto, but both seek to outline an agenda for governing.

It is a draft, subject to change as the congress completes work on a campaign manifesto due at the end of the month.

But he said of Algeria in a campaign manifesto: "The destiny of this country cannot leave us indifferent.

The force wasted an enormous amount of energy producing a plan which looks remarkably like the one sketched out in Mr Clinton's campaign manifesto.

All were fashioned from the Contract With America, the House Republicans' campaign manifesto last fall.

For the Republicans, the agreement could be said to make good on the fiscal principles of their 1994 campaign manifesto the "Contract with America."