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Deficit Commission Final Vote
Posted: Dec 3, 2010
Guess it's back to the drawing board.
It's true that a commission that began with only limited authority failed in its most significant goal, which was to win at least 14 votes among the 18 members. Fourteen votes were needed to send the package to Congress as an official recommendation and force a vote on the proposals.
It's also true that prominent members of Congress on the committee took a walk on the commission report. That group included Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), who will chair the Budget Committee in the next Congress, and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the current chairman of the Finance Committee.
But that doesn't begin to evaluate the commission's work. Andy Stern, the former president of the Service Employees International Union, who happened to vote against the plan, may have put it best when he said, "We have changed the issue from whether there should even be a fiscal plan for this country to what is the best fiscal plan for this country, and that is an enormous, tectonic, paradigm shift that I think is enormously important."
The final vote-11 ayes and 7 nays-represented a significant victory for co-chairs Alan Simpson, the former Republican senator from Wyoming, and Erskine Bowles, who was White House chief of staff in the Clinton administration.
Winning 14 of 18 votes equates with a 77 percent supermajority. Winning 11 of 18 means that the panel achieved a 60 percent supermajority, significantly better than the doubters had predicted not so long ago. The bipartisan outcome should send a powerful signal to President Obama and members of Congress to start tackling the deficit problem beginning next year rather than continuing to ignore it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/03/AR2010120303778.html
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Deficit Commission --thought this was interesting - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Obama established the Commission by Executive Order 13531. In the absence of special legislation, the Commission's proposals are not guaranteed to be considered by Congress in a single up-or-down vote.
Commission members
The Commission includes 18 members â six appointed by the president, six members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and six members of the U.S. Senate â 10 are Democrats and 8 Republicans. The first vote on the final recommendations will come on December 1, 2010. In order for a final report to be agreed to, 14 of the 18 members will have to vote to approve the report.
(Wiki)
Hmmm. Did not know Andy Stern was on the commission. - sam
[ In Reply To ..]interesting.
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