Two GOP Senators Onboard With Debt Commission Plan

Mike Crapo
From Bloomberg - Two Republican senators on President Barack Obama’s debt commission endorsed a plan by its co- chairmen, putting half of the 18-member panel on record in support of a $4 trillion budget-cutting proposal. Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Mike Crapo of Idaho said today that, while they didn’t like many elements of this week’s revised proposal, the nation’s fiscal challenges are so severe they must put aside their objections.
Tom Coburn
 “I would have written a totally different plan,” Coburn told reporters. “I can’t have my way” and “our country deserves us to sacrifice like the call we’re going to make to everyone else to sacrifice to accomplish what we have to accomplish and that is to get out of this hole.”  Read full story here:

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