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January 27, 2013
12:46 • 3 months ago
Tags: obama paul ryan es gop republicans hillary clinton erskine bowles david gregory
Look, if we had a [Hillary] Clinton presidency, if we had Erskine Bowles as Chief of Staff of the White House or President of the United States, I think we would have fixed this fiscal mess by now. That’s not the kind of presidency we’re dealing with right now.
Rep. Paul Ryan • Offering (on this morning’s Meet the Press) an interesting take on what he thinks of the Obama administration … essentially, Obama is no Hillary Clinton.
April 14, 2011
14:15 • 2 years ago

Deficit commission heads endorse Obama’s plan

Tags: alan simpson barack obama deficit endorse Erskine Bowles plan reduction

  • yesterday The budget plan pitched by the President Obama in his big speech was very similar to the proposal advanced by his bipartisan deficit reduction commission, under Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson.
  • today Bowles and Simpson met with the President earlier today, and after their meeting, the dynamic duo endorsed his twelve-year, $4 trillion reduction plan (their plan called for $4 trillion over just ten years). source

December 1, 2010
10:39 • 2 years ago
Tags: alan simpson deficit panel Erskine Bowles federal deficit obama deficit panel
Deficit Panel’s final findings: Mostly the same as the draft: These guys have offered up a plan that, among other things, would cut 200,000 federal jobs and trim defense spending. But will Congress go for it? source Follow ShortFormBlog

Deficit Panel’s final findings: Mostly the same as the draft: These guys have offered up a plan that, among other things, would cut 200,000 federal jobs and trim defense spending. But will Congress go for it? source

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November 30, 2010
20:23 • 2 years ago

Obama’s bipartisan deficit panel not currently seeing eye-to-eye

Tags: alan simpson bipartisan deficit panel deficit panel Erskine Bowles obama

  • 18 number of members of the Obama’s bipartisan deficit panel
  • 14 number of votes the panel needs to send their findings to Congress
  • no they don’t have 14 votes yet, but they hope they will by Friday source

November 10, 2010
21:34 • 2 years ago

Obama’s fiscal commission: Cut defense spending, lose the contractors

Tags: alan simpson Erskine Bowles fiscal commission gop obama politics

  • $4 billion in deficit cuts proposed over the next freaking decade
  • $3T the cost to keep the Bush tax cuts for households that make under $250,000 over the next decade
  • 3/4ths of the proposed cuts would be from the Defense Department; the rest would be from tax revenues
  • 250k number of contractors whose jobs would be eliminated under the proposal, saving $18.4 billion source

» How will Congress adopt these ideas? Don’t expect a wholesale adoption of these ideas pushed forward by a bipartisan team of Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, but the ideas will definitely push Congress in a fiscally mindful direction.

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