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SUPER COMMITTEE November 26, 2011

Washington Week Round Table: The Super Committee's Failure

By National Journal staff
The super committee failed to reach a budget deal this week, affecting national politics and the economy. Also, the GOP presidential candidates debated foreign policy, with Newt Gingrich facing new scrutiny on his immigration stance. John Dickerson guest-hosts with: Susan Davis, National Journal ; David Wessel, The Wall Street Journal ; Dan Balz, The Washington Post ; Gloria Borger, CNN. Read more »
11/22/2011

Unlike Super Committee, Public United on Taxing Wealthy

By Steven Shepard
The deficit-reduction super committee collapsed on Monday after its members failed to negotiate a proposal to reduce the nation’s debt, and this week’s United Technologies/ National Journal Congressional Connection Poll showed voters likewise struggling to find common, bipartisan ground on specific ways to trim the federal deficit. what do you think?
SUPER COMMITTEE November 22, 2011

Occupy the Highway Comes to D.C.

By Ben Terris
If traveling to Washington from New York for Thanksgiving week sounds like a nightmare, try doing it on foot. Read more »
SUPER COMMITTEE November 22, 2011

Federal Employees Temporarily Spared From Cuts By Super Committee Failure

By Kellie Lunney, Government Executive
Federal pay and benefits are being spared in the short term as a result of the super committee's failure to produce a deficit reduction plan. Read more »
SUPER COMMITTEE November 22, 2011

Toomey: We Were 'Never Very Close' to a Deal

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Democrats and Republicans on the congressional committee charged with finding $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction were “never very close” to a deal, despite several late proposals that looked like they could gain bipartisan support, said committee member Sen. Pat Toomey , R-Pa., in a Tuesday morning appearance on Fox & Friends. Read more »
SUPER COMMITTEE November 22, 2011

Hensarling: We Could Not Bridge the Gap

By National Journal Staff
Philosophical differences between Democrats and the GOP were to blame for the super committee's failure, the committee's Co-Chair Rep.  Jeb Hensarling , R-Texas, said in an op-ed in  The Wall Street Journal . Read more »
SUPER COMMITTEE November 22, 2011

Boehner, Reid Duel Over Super Committee Failure in Op-Eds

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House Speaker  John Boehner , R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader  Harry Reid , D-Nev., squared off in dueling  USA Today  op-eds over the super committee's failure to produce a plan to reduce the deficit, each blaming the opposing party for its refusal to compromise. Read more »
BUDGET November 21, 2011

After Super-Committee Failure, Congress to Scramble on Year-End Work

By Kelsey Snell
When the super committee announced its failure to reach an agreement on Monday, it jump-started what is sure to be a nasty fight over billions of dollars in legislative business that was left on the back burner during the panel's secret deliberations. Read more »
SUPER COMMITTEE November 21, 2011

Obama: 'I Will Veto Any Effort' to Undo Automatic Cuts

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President Obama Monday evening blamed Republicans for the failure of the super committee to meet its deadline for a debt plan and warned that he will veto any attempt to eliminate the automatic spending cuts that go into effect with that failure. In an appearance in the White House briefing room a little more than an hour after the committee officially conceded failure, the president said his answer to those who want to eliminate those cuts “is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off-ramps on this one.” He added, “We need to keep the pressure up to compromise, not the turn off the pressure.”   Read more »
SUPER COMMITTEE November 21, 2011

Pointing Fingers: Who's Blaming Whom in the Super Committee?—PICTURES

By Chris Heller
Call it Sunday, Guilty Sunday. The day before the deficit super committee announced  that it did not reach a deal to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the federal budget, six members flocked to Sunday talk shows to begin the blame game. In the gallery below, we've collected the gripes. Read more »
ANALYSIS November 21, 2011

Super-Committee Failure Forecasts Sequester Fight

By Susan Davis
The super committee’s failure to come up with $1.2 trillion in deficit-reduction measures has paved the way for an election-year battle by Republicans to rewrite the sequester rules and protect defense spending. Read more »
SUPER COMMITTEE November 21, 2011

Super Committee Fails to Reach Deficit Agreement

By Billy House
The bipartisan congressional committee tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction announced on Monday it cannot reach agreement by the Wednesday deadline, a stark if not unexpected admission that its efforts have ended in failure.       Read more »
SUPER COMMITTEE November 21, 2011

Aides: Kerry Proposal on Table; Failure Announcement Still Expected

By Dan Friedman
What Democrats called a “last ditch” super committee offer made by Sen. John Kerry , D-Mass, remained on the table Monday afternoon, but committee aides in both parties still expect the panel to declare failure within hours. Read more »
ANALYSIS November 21, 2011

Obama Relishes Tax-Hike Contrast

By Marc Ambinder
President Obama would have preferred the super committee produce a bipartisan deal, but what remains is not so bad: the prospect of up to $6 trillion in budget cuts if Congress does nothing, and the certainty of sharply defined election-year contrasts with Republicans. Read more »
ANALYSIS November 21, 2011

Super Committee Failure Won’t Hurt the Economy for Another Year

By Jim Tankersley
A compromise in the super committee was never going to boost the economy right away. Failure will not hurt it, for at least another year. Read more »
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