Another complication is that the president and the members of Congress serve different constituencies (Thurber 1996a). The president is elected by the nation as a whole and is typically concerned with national policies, but each senator represents a state, and each House member a particular congressional district. Members of Congress tend to be more concerned with meeting the interests of the citizens who elected them - and the interest groups on whose financial and electoral support they depend for reelection. The differing perspectives between executives and legislators also extend to the state and local levels of government. For example, with states facing sizable budget deficits in 2002, some governors proposed budget cuts that the legislators could not accept. They feared that wrath of organized groups and their voters. Many states, including California, New Jersey, and Wisconsin, found it enormously difficult to resolve these differences.