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The real meat of the super committee's work — arguments and give-and-take proposals over the future shape of politically sensitive entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, whether to increase taxes on the wealthy, and who knows what else — took place behind closed doors.
The deficit-reduction super committee failed to go big or even small. But it did succeed in conducting virtually all of its negotiations in private. file photo the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction meets to hear from Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf about the national debt, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Failure by Congress’ debt-cutting supercommittee to recommend $1.2 trillion in savings by Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, is supposed to automatically trigger spending cuts in the same amount to accomplish that job.
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The real meat of the super committee's work — arguments and give-and-take proposals over the future shape of politically sensitive entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, whether to increase taxes on the wealthy, and who knows what else — took place behind closed doors.
The deficit-reduction super committee failed to go big or even small. But it did succeed in conducting virtually all of its negotiations in private. file photo the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction meets to hear from Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf about the national debt, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Failure by Congress’ debt-cutting supercommittee to recommend $1.2 trillion in savings by Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, is supposed to automatically trigger spending cuts in the same amount to accomplish that job.
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