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Reporter’s Notebook: Understanding the automatic cuts if the supercommittee can’t deliver
By Keenan Steiner Nov 18, 2011 2:26 p.m.With the supercommittee's deadline only five days away, the special deficit-cutting panel's chances of reaching a deal appear to be in doubt. And if no agreement is reached, more than one trillion dollars in cuts would be set in motion starting in 2013. That is, if the Congress and president allow the automatic trigger to take effect.
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Senators on super committee collecting less campaign cash this quarter
By Lindsay Young Nov 4, 2011 5:46 p.m.All but one Senate member on the super committee collected less campaign funds this quarter compared the previous quarter. Only Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, had a modest increase collecting a total of $85,532.
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Wednesday: Sunlight Live to check in on super committee
By Tessa Muggeridge Oct 24, 2011 12:47 p.m.When the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or super committee, emerges from the shadows on Wednesday morning to hold its first public hearing in a month, the Sunlight Live team will be there to shine a light on who’s influencing the panel.
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Super committee related issues feature in hundreds of lobbying reports
By Anupama Narayanswamy Oct 24, 2011 11:23 a.m.K Street firms got little respite this past quarter, between lobbying on the debt ceiling early in the summer and then quickly shifting their focus to the "super committee," recently released lobbying reports show.
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Fourth "Supercommittee" Meeting to Review Tax Code
By Katy Schultz Sep 21, 2011 10:48 a.m.Thursday morning the Super Committee will convene for the fourth time since its creation in response to the debt crisis over the summer. The committee, officially named the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, conducted a breakfast meeting behind closed doors Sept. 15, despite the insistence of transparency by government watchdog groups and fellow legislators. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., released a statement expressing his disappointment regarding the private breakfast.
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Super Committee, Boehner speech protests linked to major labor group
By Chris Zubak-Skees Sep 16, 2011 12:03 p.m.Our DC, a SEIU-linked protest group that stopped the first Super Committee meeting, has been regularly delivering a pro-jobs message to congressional Republicans: with some 100 protesters outside House Speaker John Boehner's speech at the Economic Club of Washington yesterday, according to organizers, who said the protest was in support of the American Jobs Act.
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How do lobbyists snag front-row seats at hearings?
By Tessa Muggeridge Sep 15, 2011 10:39 a.m.As the 12 members of the “super committee” scour the nation’s budget searching for at least $1.2 trillion in federal cuts, Washington lobbyists are watching their every move, hoping to protect the interests of their clients.
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Who's watching the Super Committee?
By Tessa Muggeridge Sep 14, 2011 5:08 p.m.A big audience turned out yesterday for the second meeting of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or the "super committee," as its 12 members asked questions of the first witness, CBO director Doug Elmendorf. The meeting was open to the public and there was live video on the committee's new website.
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Top donors to Super Committee House Dems lobby for Defense and Medicare funding
By Bill Allison Sep 12, 2011 2:16 p.m.A replacement for the Space Shuttle, tax breaks for personal injury attorneys, two nuclear powered submarines and bigger Medicare reimbursements for some specialists and drugs are among the lobbying wish lists of the top career donors to the three House Democrats on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, otherwise known as the super committee.
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Sunlight Live to cover first "Supercommittee" hearing
By Katy Schultz Sep 7, 2011 noonAfter a quick summer recess, Congress returned this week with the newly formed “Supercommittee” scheduled to hold its first debt reduction meeting this Thursday at 10:30 a.m. EST. Unlike the debt negotiations held earlier this summer, the Supercommittee meetings will be conducted openly and we’ll be there to provide live fact checking, context and analysis so you can better understand the tanlged web of money and politics and how it relates to these meetings.
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Donors to Senate GOP super committee members seek tax cuts, tax breaks
By Bill Allison Sep 6, 2011 12:42 p.m.The Club for Growth, which advocates making permanent some tax cuts and eliminating entirely others that, over just two years, would amount to more than $765 billion in lost revenues over two years, is a top donor to two of the three Republican Senators on the Joint Select Committee on Debt Reduction--the super committee. Other top donors include a hedge fund run by a top Republican donor that invests in, among other things, defaulted debt of sovereign nations, corporations trying to shield income earned overseas from U.S. taxes, and utility firms seeking to avoid regulation of greenhouse gases.
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