The fiscal commission chaired by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles used the same technique.
Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson seems to agree, arguing against Norquist and the pledge.
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Mr. ALAN SIMPSON (Former Republican Senator): A hundred-percenter is a person you don't want to be around.
Alan Simpson and William Perry were members of the Iraq Study Group and helped write the panel's report.
However, he told BBC Radio Ulster DJ Alan Simpson he may try to persuade Flowers to perform in Ahoghill.
Labour MP Alan Simpson wants developers to pay for insurance for up to 20 years after they build on flood plains.
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They have joined the "usual suspects" like Alan Simpson, Alice Mahon and Glenda Jackson in expressing serous concerns over the latest developments.
Last month Gibb, from Edinburgh, pleaded guilty to endangering the life of Chalmers and Reliance security guards Alan Simpson and Kevin McDonagh.
Alan Simpson's proposal would mean house builders taking out an insurance bond in case a development floods after the buyer moves in.
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In a rare group appearance, Warren Buffett, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles came together in Sun Valley for a CNBC interview.
President Obama needs to get to the place Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson described, and have been advocating, for the past few years.
At the same time, two veteran deficit hawks Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson proposed their own new framework for deficit reduction aimed at replacing the sequester.
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We've been listening to Alan Simpson's stand-up routine for decades now.
It was with genuine trepidation that I took a quick look at the bipartisan report that Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson prepared for the Obama Deficit Commission.
Bowles, a moderate Democrat, and Alan Simpson, a moderate Republican.
So it's easier for Alan Simpson to, you know, talk about ulcers and gas or whatever he was talking about than to explain how this is going to work.
And, as the gentlemen behind me, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, can attest, this has been the norm around Washington for a very long time when it comes to our finances.
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So could you tell us about the choice of Alan Simpson, what you are trying to project and what it might do -- what you hope it will do to get Republicans onboard with this thing?
On November 10th Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of Barack Obama's deficit commission, proposed sweeping tax reforms and spending overhauls to cut the deficit to 2.2% and stabilise the debt at 69% of GDP by 2015.
He doesn't know anything about what's going - I mean, the number of people on this commission who have zero expertise or even pretended expertise in these matters is very large, and Alan Simpson is one of them.
Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are taking on the impossible: They're going to try to restore reason to the fiscal debate and come up with answers as co-chairs of the new National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
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The proposal from former Republican Senator Alan Simpson and Democrat Erskine Bowles, President Bill Clinton's former chief of staff, suggests taking about a quarter of savings from changes to healthcare programmes and another quarter from new revenue from tax changes.
He was one of three House Republicans appointed to the deficit-reduction commission led by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles in 2010, and he crafted a plan with former White House budget director Alice Rivlin to slow the cost of Medicare.
John McCain, R-Arizona, in 2008, but abandoned the president in 2010 -- especially since Reed has been most recently serving as staff director for the president's debt panel, co-chaired by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, which so far has gotten no traction with its final report.
Indeed, the President could do worse than to appoint Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the two chairmen of the Bowles-Simpson Commission, to head a special White House initiative to find compromise before sequestration automatically kicks in resulting in over a trillion in cuts to the budget on January 1st.
Alan Simpson is a flinty Wyoming truth-teller -- (laughter) -- if you look in the dictionary it says "flinty, " and then it's got Simpson's picture. (Laughter.) Through nearly two decades in the United States Senate, he earned a reputation for putting common sense and the people's welfare ahead of petty politics.
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MSPs then quizzed Water Industry Commission for Scotland chief executive Alan Sutherland and director of analysis John Simpson.
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