Advice for Congress, from Congress
More than 20 Senators and seven Representatives have begun work on a compromise budget that liberals and conservatives can live with, before new sequester cuts hit in January. We’ve been down this road before. In fact, the failure of the 2011 “supercommittee” is what led to the sequester cuts taking effect in the first place. Supercommittee alumni – former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), and Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) – have some advice for members of the new budget conference commission: Read more…
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