The much ballyhooed Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction–aka the “supercommittee”–was supposed to hear a history of the debt crisis today. You can imagine how well that was going to go over. Partisans from both sides were prepared, I’m sure, to lay blame for the federal government’s fiscal problems at their opponents feet. “It […]
Twelve Adults and the CBO: How many adults in the room?
September 13, 2011 by Daniel Burton
Filed Under: Fiscal Reform Tagged With: Barack Obama, Congressional Budget Office, deficit, Douglas W. Elmendorf, John Kyl, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, Republicans, Supercommittee
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