Super Committee

Government Report Contradicts GOP On Dire Situation

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Automatic Spending Cuts, Politics News, Video, 2012 Elections, Super Committee, Cbo, Federal Deficit, President Obama, Elections 2012, Deficit Reduction, Gop, Congressional Budget Office, Recession, Barack Obama, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News

A new government report said spending cuts scheduled to go into effect in 2013, coupled with the simultaneous expiration of Bush-era tax cuts, will sh...

Read Whole Story

Reid Stands Firm On Tough Cuts

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Harry Reid Defense Cuts, Video, Super Committee, Harry Reid, Supercommittee, Reid, Sequester, Defense Cuts, Defense Budget, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top Democratic ally in the Senate said Wednesday that he won't block much-feared automatic spending cuts to the...

Read Whole Story

McCain, Kyl Unveil New Plan

AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Pentagon, Deficit, Congress, Senate, John McCain, Video, Defense, Super Committee, Federal Budget Deficit, Defense Spending, Defense Cuts, Jon Kyl, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Intent on sparing the Pentagon from deep spending cuts, top Senate Republicans on Thursday endorsed legislation that targets federa...

Read Whole Story

Jason Linkins

In 2012, Keep Rooting Against Congressional Deficit Reduction Efforts

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Deficit, Video, Structural Deficits, National Debt, Unemployment, Super Committee, Debt Reduction, Unemployment Crisis, Case for Doing Nothing, Media Criticism, Politics News

As a corollary to my earlier post on that Lori Montgomery article, let's remember that if 2011 was a year in which Congress did very little to address...

Read Whole Story

10 Reasons Homelessness Could Increase In 2012

Joel John Roberts | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Iraq War, 100khomes, European Debt Crisis, Poverty, Super Committee, Homelessness, Charity, Third World America, Occupy Wall Street, Demi Moore, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Ashton Kutcher, Justin Bieber, Department of Housing and Urban Development, California Redevelopment Agencies, Impact News
Joel John Roberts

As this year ends, the confusing tallies of homelessness in America persist. Take the federal perspective on the number of homeless in our country. Th...

Read Post

Senate Hits the Mark on Missile Defense

Mark Pfeifle | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Aegis, Congress, Super Committee, Robert Gates, Missile Defense, Iran, Defense Spending, Drones, Walter Pincus, Politics News
Mark Pfeifle

The implications of Iran's growing bellicosity are increasingly more difficult for the United States.

Read Post

Saving WIC and Protecting Struggling Families

Debbie Halvorson | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Illinois Congressional Race, Super Committee, Debbie Halvorson, Food Stamps, Food Politics, Wic, Food, Il-02, Chicago News
Debbie Halvorson

The Super Committee's failure to come up with a plan to cut the deficit will be devastating for low-income pregnant women, infants and children.

Read Post

Stop Searching for Super

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Pomegranate, Blueberries, Waiting for Superman, Super Committee, Santa Claus, Goji Berries, Superman, Superfoods, Easter Bunny, Culture News
Howard Steven Friedman

My thoughts on Superfoods, Superman, and Super Committees are pretty much the same. It's nice to pretend that there are simple solutions to complicated problems but I live in the real world.

Read Post

Lynne Peeples

Environment At Risk From Anticipated Farm Bill Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Water Quality, Farming, Farm Bill, Drought, Super Committee, 2012 Farm Bill, Ecosystem Services, Budget Cuts, Dust Storm, Flood, Conservation, Erosion, Green News

On October 17, a massive dust storm hit Lubbock, Texas, adding to already significant agricultural and environmental devastation across the South this...

Read Whole Story

Both Sides Now: Spitzer and Matalin Debate the Economy and Latinos

HuffPost Radio | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Taxes, Richard Cordray, Joihn McCain, Jay Carney, Latino Vote, Romney, Kathleen Sebelius, Hillary Clinton, Mary Matalin, Super Committee, Eliot Spitzer, Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Politics News
HuffPost Radio

2011-11-29-20111107bothsidesnow.jpgSpitzer and Matalin focus on the Big Two 2012 issues: go back to Bushonomics or stick with Teddy Obama? And there's consensus that GOP anti-immigrant rhetoric risks losing Hispanic voters and swing states. Like Texas?

Read Post

Guns or Butter? Decisions After the Failure of the Super Committee

Abdulrahman El-Sayed | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Super Committee, Congress Super Committee, Super Committee Cuts, Super Committee Failure, Super Committee Defense, Defense Spending, Super Committee Fail, Medicare Cuts, Politics News
Abdulrahman El-Sayed

We face, today, our own hard and inescapable facts that call into question what the most important pursuits of America's responsibility and purpose at home and abroad really are. Guns to kill people in other countries or butter to save people in our own?

Read Post

What's Liberal About A Civility Pledge?

Stuart Muszynski | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Politics, Pledge of Allegiance, Congress, Super Committee, America, Constitution, Values, Civility, Pledge to America, Politics News
Stuart Muszynski

If Congress wants an America that knows what it stands for, where things get done and where civility actually matters, it will set the example by signing the Purple America Pledge.

Read Post

Both Sides Now: Can the Final Three Pass Their 2012 Character 'Stress Tests'?

HuffPost Radio | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Hilary Rosen, John McCain, Gov. Christie, Barney Frank, Joe Klein, Mary Matalin, Super Committee, Charles Krautheimer, Pepper Spray, Barack Obama, Jon Huntsman, George Will, Jeff Zeleny, Rick Perry, Hillary Clinton, Bret Baier, Politics News
HuffPost Radio

2011-11-29-20111107bothsidesnow.jpgMatalin and Rosen debate personal flaws of the Final Three. Obama a loner? Romney a phony? Newt a blowhard with "baggage"?

Read Post

Sam Stein

Barney Frank: Majority Of Democrats Will Support Amending Defense Cut Trigger

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Congress, Defense Trigger, Barney Frank Trigger, Barney Frank, Obama Super Committee, Barney Frank Congress, Obama Triggers, Toomey Triggers, Obama Debt Ceiling, Defense Cuts, Barack Obama, Frank Trigger, Politics News, Obama Veto Threat, Video, Super Committee, Federal Budget Deficit, Toomey Defense Cuts, Obama Defense Cuts, Pat Toomey, Sequester, Toomey Obama, Obama Veto, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Retiring Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) spilled a few beans on Sunday morning when he said a majority of Democrats would sign off on...

Read Whole Story

Super Congress Fail May Not Hurt Pentagon

AOL Defense | By Colin Clark | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Super Congress, Aol, Super Committee, Defense, National Debt, Aol Defense, Budget Cuts, Congress Super Committee, Pentagon Cuts, President Barack Obama, Defense Cuts, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON: President Obama's defense budget for 2013 implements the start of the $500 billion in budget cuts required by the Budget Control Act but d...

Read Whole Story

The Great Recession of 2007-2008 Could Be Ruinous If Not Resolved

Nake M. Kamrany | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Financial Crisis, Debt Crisis, Super Committee, Great Recession, Recession, Politics News
Nake M. Kamrany

Currently we are stuck and the government must implement fiscal and monetary policy vigorously to ward off a depression and get the economy out of the great recession.

Read Post

Super Committee Fail Jeopardizes Science Research

Neal Sweeney | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Science Funding, Science Research, Science Research Cuts, Science Budget Cuts, Research Budget Cuts, Congressional Super Committee, Super Committee, San Francisco News
Neal Sweeney

In spite of the great benefits of the U.S.'s long-standing commitment to basic science research and the breakthroughs it has enabled, Congress stands poised to undermine this cornerstone of American economic competitiveness.

Read Post

In the Public Interest: Deficit Reduction That Should Be Easy

Dan_Smith | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Taxes, Politics News, Congress, Super Committee, In the Public Interest, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget Cuts, Budget, Tax Loopholes, Deficit Reduction, U.S. PIRG, Tax Reform, Corporate Taxes, Politics News
Dan_Smith

The decision on how we achieve deficit reduction now returns to the full Congress. They can do right by the American people and end wasteful subsidies, close corporate tax loopholes and direct taxpayer money to important public priorities.

Read Post

Jason Linkins

Thomas Friedman To Obtain Obama's Deficit Reduction Plan He Didn't Think Existed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Thomas Friedman, Thomas Friedman New York Times, Super Committee, Budget, Thomas Friedman Column, Media Criticism, Media News, Thomas Friedman Who's the Decider, Media News

Thank you, Fox News' Ed Henry, for the scoop that Thomas Friedman is at the White House today, and for pointing out that he may, at this minute, finally be in possession of the very deficit proposals that the White House made months ago.

Read Whole Story

The Failure of the Super Committee and the Dismal Future for Congress

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Debt, Super Committee, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Budget, Tax Increases, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

The super committee, in addition to being a gimmick, was a way for congressional leadership and the White House to put off the decisions that were forced upon them by the debt ceiling debate.

Read Post

Lynne Peeples

Betting More Than Just The Farm: Public Health, Environment At Stake In 'Farm Bill'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Farm Bill, Farming, Commodities, 2012 Farm Bill, Ecosystem Services, Super Committee, Food Stamps, Conservation, Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Change, Green News

Some U.S. farmers are paid to leave their land wild; others are compensated when weather devastates their cultivated land. Still others receive money ...

Read Whole Story

10 Reasons the Super Committee Failed

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Congress, Super Committee, Fisk, Finance, Politics News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

As long as the powers that rule in this country see everything as a transaction and every transaction as a "zero sum" negotiation, we will not be able to discover and embrace a transformational paradigm.

Read Post

Super Committee Occupies My Miami Winter

Daniella Levine | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Occupy Miami, Community, Super Committee, Rev. Jim Wallis, Individualism, Occupy Wall Street, Miami Politics, Miami News
Daniella Levine

The Super Committee "fails." Occupiers are evicted. Cool weather comes to Miami. How do these relate if at all?

Read Post

Jason Linkins

How New Coke Explains Why We Should Celebrate The Super Committee's 'Failure'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Eat the Press, Deficit, Super Congress, Super Committee, Media Criticism, Failure, Coca-Cola-Classic, New Coke, Media News

As the congressional super committee deliberated throughout the fall, the media got us locked into this notion that if they were unable to come up with an agreed upon plan, this constituted a "failure," while an approved-by-super-committee strategy for curbing the debt constituted a "success." The problem with that thinking is that there was never any indication that suggested they could deliver an intelligent plan, just as there was never any indication that Coca-Cola's attempt to alter its classic recipe in 1985 wouldn't end up as the unalloyed failure that it did. In both cases, what's been deemed a "failure," for all anyone really knows, may have actually been a dodged bullet.

Read Whole Story

5 Countries With the Highest Military Expenditure

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Russia, US Military, Super Committee, Military, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Budget, Saudi Arabia, Slidepollajax, United States, China, World News
Howard Steven Friedman

The United States spends more on its military than the total spent by the second largest (China), third largest (United Kingdom), fourth largest (France), fifth largest (Russia)... and fifteenth largest (Turkey) combined.

Read Post