The fiscal commission chaired by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles used the same technique.
But you know that fiscal commission that I just talked about, that was Gregg's proposal.
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And as I said, more will be necessary, which is why we're creating a fiscal commission.
Just this year, these same Republicans voted against a bipartisan fiscal commission that they themselves had proposed.
His Fiscal Commission, as I noted last year, suggested a big hike in the payroll tax burden.
So why is it that the deal outlined by the Fiscal Commission would be attractive to the rUK?
Last week, for example, you put up for a vote a bill I supported -- Conrad-Gregg fiscal commission.
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But there's more that we need to do, and hopefully that fiscal commission will help to do just that.
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Doing such a deal on sticking with sterling dominates the Fiscal Commission report.
Our fiscal situation is something that this administration, the fiscal commission and Congress will spend a lot of time on.
It seems that you have not taken -- I guess my question is what was the point of the fiscal commission?
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More recently, the chairmen of President Obama's bipartisan fiscal commission put forward a plan for lower rates and a broader base.
Is there a possibility that that could be folded into the fiscal commission's review, or is it just on the back burner?
That's why he appointed his fiscal commission last year, the Bowles-Simpson commission.
We have put forward a fiscal commission that is then going to examine how do we deal with these broader structural deficits.
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But the idea of a bipartisan fiscal commission to confront the deficits in the long term died in the Senate the other day.
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It is the size of deficit reduction that has been identified by the fiscal commission, named after former Senator Simpson and Erskine Bowles.
Everything you have talked about -- tax reform, the entitlement reform, two parties coming together just happening in December in your fiscal commission.
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If at least 14 of the 18 members of the Fiscal Commission approve the final plan, Congress is required to vote on the recommendations.
The fiscal commission showed that you need to look at entitlements, you need to look at tax expenditures, you need to look at military spending.
Bowles and Simpson were the co-chairmen of Obama's bipartisan fiscal commission in 2010, and their recommendations came to serve as a yardstick for other debt-reduction proposals.
Ryan is also a member of the so-called Fiscal Commission that, by December, is supposed to come up with plans to slash the deficit by 2015.
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He established the fiscal Bowles commission -- the fiscal commission -- I mean, the Simpson-Bowles commission, the fiscal commission that, because Congress would not, he established.
There is a lot of -- what is amazing to me, and this is really an inside-Washington kind of conversation about Simpson-Bowles, Bowles-Simpson and the fiscal commission.
Recently the co-chairmen of the fiscal commission (real name: National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform) also introduced some unpopular ways to trim the deficit.
And that includes the United States of America, which is why I've got a fiscal commission that's going to be reporting to me by the end of the year.
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The Scottish government said its proposal for a currency union with the rest of the UK had the backing of senior economists who made up its Fiscal Commission Working Group.
President Obama has appointed a Fiscal Commission to offer recommendations for cutting the deficit on Dec. 1 as part of a target to cut it to 3% of GDP by 2015.
It could act -- for example, it could decide to use -- operate under the baseline used by the fiscal commission that assumed the expiration of the Bush high-income tax cuts.
But he is committed to addressing those issues, as he has made clear since his State of the Union address and he made clear when he appointed the fiscal commission last year.
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