I think what we have done in the two two-year deals that we have done, the Murray-Ryan deal in December 2013 and the deal we got in October of 2015, is basically not only have we done two-year budgets, but we have decided we will treat the budget caps as a discipline, but not a straitjacket.
Kaine discusses the flexibility of budget caps in recent two-year budget deals.
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