BUDGET

DOCUMENT: Gang of Six Deficit Plan Executive Summary

Updated: July 19, 2011 | 1:05 p.m.
July 19, 2011 | 1:41 p.m.

UPDATED: An earlier version of this story linked only to the first two pages of the five-page outline.

The following outline was provided to 49 senators who attended a bipartisan briefing on the progress of the Senate’s Gang of Six, a group working toward a fiscal bargain based on last year’s Bowles-Simpson commission report. The document quickly spread to K Street and throughout Washington.

Contributors include Senate Minority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla.

Download the executive summary as a PDF.

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