In the two weeks since the election, the deficit has taken center stage in Washington, propelled by a high-profile report on how to cut it from the chairmen of the president’s deficit commission, and by a push to ban congressional earmarks from conservative activists. This is welcome news for Democratic Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee, a renowned budgetary Cassandra who is so alarmed by the deficit that the first thing visitors to his Capitol Hill office encounter is a billboard displaying the steadily mounting US debt. Yesterday, it stood at $13,050,588,009,652, and...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/11/18/dark_days_for_a_deficit_fighter_245995.html
Sheldon Whitehouse Sherrod Brown Susan Collins Ted Kaufman Ted Kennedy
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