Salon.com > Jeb Hensarling http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Another hidden supercommittee menace http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/another_hidden_supercommittee_menace/ http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/another_hidden_supercommittee_menace/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10229309 The congressional deficit supercommittee is pulling into the home stretch. Whether the secret, round-the-clock negotiations among its 12 members will yield a budget-cutting deal before its Thanksgiving deadline is the subject of intense speculation in Washington.

Republican co-chair Jeb Hensarling indicated on MSNBC on Tuesday night that the Republicans have gone as far as they are willing to go when it comes to compromise. House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and others held a press conference this morning urging the supercommittee to “go big” on an agreement over deficit reduction. The White House, in the meantime, is bracing for failure, according to the Washington Post.

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