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Alan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician who served from 1979 to 1997 as a United States Senator from Wyoming as a member of the Republican Party.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Government leaders past and present gathered in Washington on Tuesday to do what they do best about the nation's deficit woes: talk.
At an annual "fiscal summit" in a capital city that seems almost comically unable to function, much less take action to trim benefit programs and defense spending or raise taxes to close a crippling budget gap, a crowd of the converted listened to Washington elite: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, former President Bill Clinton, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, members of a failed deficit "supercommittee," and the chairman and top Democrat on the House Banking Committee.There was universal agreement. The deficit is bad and Washington really, really needs to fix it. Fast.What was lacking was any agreement on how to do it, and certainly no expectation that the warring tribes in Washington will do anything meaningful to tackle trillion-dollar deficits before the fall elections.The summit is hosted by Pete Peterson, who has staked $1 billion of his Wall Stre...A draft proposal by the deficit commission suggests curbing Social Security benefits and raising the retirement age.The co-chairmen of the panel appointed by Preside...
The House took up a stringent GOP budget plan Wednesday that blends big cuts to safety-net programs for the poor with a plan to dramatically overhaul Medicare, kicki...
The Deficit Commission is a dud. We always suspected it, now we know it. Co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson attempted a grand compromise on solving the defici...
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A sweeping proposal aimed at cutting $4 trillion from the budget over the next decade failed to win enough votes Friday to clear the commission President Obama entru...
While deficit commission co-chairman Alan Simpson suggests prayer is the answer to finding long-term debt reduction, President Obama is counting on a small group of ...
In a politically incendiary plan, the bipartisan leaders of President Barack Obama's deficit commission proposed curbs in Social Security benefits, deep reductions i...
The co-chairmen of the president's deficit commission are urging politicians not to "wimp out" as they roll out dozens of recommendations aimed at slicing trillions ...
WASHINGTON -- The members of President Barack Obama's deficit commission will begin to go on the record Wednesday as they debate politically explosive budget cuts, i...
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Republicans named a mix of partisans and pragmatists on Wednesday to the new congressional committee charged with striking a debt-cutting compromise. While members o...
The Politico headline read: "Conservative elites pine for 2012 hero." They could have shortened that sentence to "Elites pine" or more likely to "Elites freak the he...
Government leaders past and present gathered in Washington to do what they do best about the nation's deficit woes: talk.At an annual "fiscal summit" Tuesday in a ca...
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Former Sen. Alan Simpson will keep his job on President Obama ’s deficit panel despite pressure from advocacy groups worried about his comments comparing Social Secu...
Two Democratic lawmakers and several women's advocacy groups are calling on President Obama to fire former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson from the federal debt commission...
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