National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform


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The Sales Pitch Proves the Point

By EllenBeth Gill
November 10, 2010

We're working with some of the best state-level bloggers from around the country to help us tell the truth about key economic and social policy issues, and to draw the contrast between the rhetoric of the right and the progressive alternative. Please visit our CAF State Blogger Network page to see more. more »

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Deficit Commission: If You Won’t Fire Simpson, Keep Your Hands Off Social Security

By Roger Hickey
September 1, 2010

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have now called for Senator Alan Simpson, co-chair of the White House deficit commission, to step down – after he insulted the head of the Older Women’s League, Ashley Carson, by implying that her dedication to protecting retirees was not “hone more »

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Say No To Secrecy For The Deficit Commission!

By Representative John Conyers, Jr.
April 20th, 2010

Representative John Conyers, Jr., a Detroit Democrat, was re-elected to represent the 14th Congressional District in November of 2008, to his 22nd term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

At the end of this month, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform will hold its first meeting and begin to consider ways to dig our nation out from the irresponsible deficits created by the Bush Administration. This presidentially-created 18-member commission is tasked with addressing "the growth of entitlement spending and the gap between the projected revenues and expenditures of the Federal Government."

While I and many of my fellow Members of Congress support efforts to balance the budget, it is critically important that this commission examine every part of the federal budget during this process. For example, the Commission should most certainly consider the $985 billion dollars spent on foreign wars since 2001. more »

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