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Current Events => Economics => Topic started by: cavegal on December 02, 2010, 11:41:16 AM
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http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1210/can_it_pass_c5c553ab-7ad9-4c7f-8950-6d73eb70f1d5.html
Two Republican senators on President Obama's deficit commission -- Tom Coburn and Mike Crapo -- announced Thursday that they support the recommendations put forth by the panel's chairmen, which include $2.2 trillion in cuts to discretionary spending and $1 trillion in tax increases over the next nine years.
The panel, which has 18 members, is still expected to fall short of the 14 votes Obama called for to reach a consensus on ways to trim the deficit. Paul Ryan, a Republican on the panel, told reporters Thursday morning that he wouldn't vote for the proposal.