Deficit-Cutting Plan Stumbles In Uphill Climb Reuters reports on the prospects of the Deficit Commission’s proposal, which is expected to fail to win a supermajority vote among its members today: “Although the plan drafted by panel co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson was unlikely to go to Congress, it will likely provide an abundance of ideas that could frame the politically explosive deficit debate in 2011 and 2012.”
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