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November 12, 2010

Nation's Nurses Sharply Criticize Deficit Commission's Bowles-

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"Nurses are aghast at the Commission on the Deficit's Bowles-Simpson proposal for a cruel and senseless cut to the Social Security and Medicare programs [...]
November 13, 2010

Deficit Commission Proposes $4 Trillion In Cuts

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President Obama's bipartisan Deficit Commission also wants to raise the federal gas tax by 15 cents a gallon, and they want to get rid of tax deductions for [...]
November 13, 2010

Michael Hiltzik: The Deficit Commission's War On The Middle Class

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Last week, deficit panic gave birth to a set of harsh proposals for federal budget cuts and tax changes from the co-chairs of the National Commission on [...]
November 12, 2010

Deficit Commission

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SO THE chairman's mark of the deficit reduction commission was released yesterday by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles. Felix Salmon makes fun of it for [...]
November 13, 2010

Republicans' New Responsibility On Deficit Reduction

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The report authors – deficit commission co-chairs, former Republican Senator Alan Simpson and former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles – were right to [...]
November 17, 2010

The Deficit Commission's Assault On The Marine Corps

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Earlier this month the co-chairmen of the president's bipartisan deficit commission issued a series of proposals of how the yawning gap between federal [...]
November 12, 2010

Action, Not Talk: Deficit Panel Pushes Dems, GOP

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of the deficit commission are baldly calling out the budget myths of both political parties, challenging lawmakers to engage [...]
November 15, 2010

Fight Or Bargain? Tax Cuts Vs. The Deficit

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Coming out of the midterm elections, the Obama administration faces two questions on which the choice is fight or cooperate -- the deficit commission and [...]
November 12, 2010

So, About That Deficit Commission . . .

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The chairmen of the deficit commission have released a proposal as to what we should do about our fiscal future. It's not the commission's final report; [...]
November 16, 2010

Deficit Cutters Eye Mortgage Tax Deduction, Raising An Outcry

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The deficit commission is not scheduled to submit its report until Dec. 1, so "any comments at this point would be premature and based on conjecture," [...]
November 12, 2010

Paul Krugman's Deficient Deficit Commission Critique

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Paul Krugman was never going to like the president's deficit commission, but I didn't expect his reaction to be so strident. There's a lot I disagree with [...]
November 17, 2010

More Deficit Commission Reports, When We Need A Growth Commission Report

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Mexico who at the end liked to walk around Congress in his pajamas; Alice Rivlin is the deficit scold Democrat who's a member of the Catfood Commission. [...]
November 15, 2010

Fuel Tax Hike Proposed By Deficit Commission

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The commission, headed by former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles and former senator Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.), released a draft of the plan [...]
November 14, 2010

Conrad Opposed To Deficit Reduction Plan That Eliminates All Tax Breaks

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Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Senate Budget Committee Chairman Senator Kent Conrad, a member of the presidential commission on deficit reduction, [...]
November 15, 2010

US Deficit Panel Unveils Proposal To Save $4 Trillion By 2020

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The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, a bipartisan commission recently created by President Obama, unveiled a proposal that could [...]
November 15, 2010

How Would You Fix The Monster Deficit?

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By The Last Word Staff Back in February, President Obama created the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility to address the country's nearly [...]
November 12, 2010

Deficit Commission Proposes Fuel Tax Hikes

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on Wednesday, released a draft proposal of a plan that would bring the deficit down to 2 percent of GDP by 2014, and lower the national debt to 34 percent [...]
November 13, 2010

Deficit Proposal Would Increase One Federal Workforce -

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find lots to worry about in recommendations made this week by the co-chairmen of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. [...]
November 12, 2010

The Fight Over Social Security's Future Is On

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Those were themes echoed by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who said: “The chairmen of the Deficit Commission just told working Americans to 'Drop Dead. [...]
November 12, 2010

Deficit Commission Report A Sobering Reminder On US Ethanol Policy Reform

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To continue the dessert metaphor, there is some low-hanging fruit in the deficit commission's quest to identify spending that Americans can no longer afford [...]
November 17, 2010

National Review: No Compromises For Schakowsky

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Schakowsky has come out with her own deficit reduction plan in opposition to the one proposed by deficit commission co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan [...]
November 12, 2010

Fred Thompson: The Deficit Commission Chairmen's Proposal Is Breathtaking

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That's how disgracefully pathetic our political leadership has been in confronting the subject of debt and deficit publicly. Kent Conrad said this morning [...]
November 12, 2010

Many Deficit Commission Staffers Paid By Outside Groups

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By Dan Eggen The leaders of President Obama's deficit commission sparked criticism from both sides of the political aisle Wednesday for proposing broad cuts [...]
November 13, 2010

8 Ways Deficit Panel Aims To Change Social Security

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The deficit commission recommends further increasing the retirement age by one month every two years. This proposal would cause the retirement age to reach [...]
November 12, 2010

Deficit Commission Takes Aim At Social Security, Middle Class Tax Breaks

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A bi-partisan commission put in place by President Barack Obama unveiled sweeping proposals yesterday that would rein in the massive federal deficit, [...]

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