He mentioned Simpson-Bowles fleetingly in his State of the Union speech a month later.
Eisenhower and would require less in defense cuts than recommended by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission.
Simpson-Bowles, Paul Ryan and small business owners should delight in the Romney tax plan.
Partisanship is destroying our legislative system and rejection of the Simpson-Bowles plan is case in point.
The Simpson-Bowles commission exists, or existed rather, because the President of the United States created it.
And yet, the three House Republican members on the Simpson-Bowles commission voted no, including Representative Ryan.
Do you support not just all of the provisions, but maybe any of the provisions in Simpson-Bowles?
Simpson-Bowles, many others looking on the outside say the discretionary side has been squeezed for many years.
Some similar, we can imagine, to the Simpson-Bowles Commission, but with new consumption taxes now off the table.
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He had served on the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission but refused to endorse its final proposal, in December, 2010.
Furthermore, Governor Romney proposes revenue-neutral reform while the Simpson-Bowles Commission would raise taxes as a share of GDP.
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Of course, much, if not all of Simpson-Bowles leaves a bad taste in the mouth of partisan politicians.
In principle, it mirrors the balance that was put forward by the Simpson-Bowles Commission, by the Domenici-Rivlin Commission.
That number exceeds what was contained in the Simpson-Bowles proposals -- exceeds -- in the first 10 years.
When the Simpson-Bowles plan emerged in darkest December two years ago, it was routinely ignored by official Washington.
While President Obama has not tried to act on any of the Simpson-Bowles recommendations, at least he created the Commission.
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Agreement should have come through the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles committee, which did indeed come up with a truly bipartisan plan.
But he foolishly failed to embrace a long-term budget solution put forward by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission, which he himself appointed.
North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, proposed a stripped-down version of Simpson-Bowles on Fox News Sunday.
The Simpson-Bowles plan represents a legitimate way out of this crisis and a whole new way of looking at these issues.
And in fact, his budget proposal is different from the Simpson-Bowles approach.
He rejected proposals of his own bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission, which would have provided long-term deficit reduction and stabilized rapidly growing entitlement programs.
The president talked a good game about being willing to offer the same amount of Medicare cuts as were proposed by Simpson-Bowles.
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Do you support revenues the size that Simpson-Bowles put on the table?
The Senate deal should have been Simpson-Bowles or a version of it as Senator Kent Conrad argued for last weekend on Fox Sunday.
There is a lot of loose talk that sometimes goes unchallenged, often by reporters, about who actually supports the principles behind the Simpson-Bowles commission.
But our poll found that there is a bipartisan, compromise plan in Washington that Americans overwhelmingly support: the revamped Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan.
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Many provisions of Simpson-Bowles are reflected in the positions he took over the summer and in the plan that he put forward in September.
He embraced his own Simpson-Bowles Commission on Medicare reform and he promised that none of his laundry list of proposals would raise the deficit.
Additional spending reductions proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan in his 2012 budget, and by the Simpson-Bowles Commission, would be adopted as necessary.
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