Sentences with phrase «supercommittee on deficit reduction»

Less certain is when this debate will occur in light of competing priorities on the Senate floor, including the president's jobs bill, fiscal 2012 spending, and a possible proposal from the supercommittee on deficit reduction.

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He ignored the recommendations of his own bipartisan deficit reduction commission, proposed a federal budget that was so political it was rejected 97 - 0 by the Senate, reneged on a deficit compromise last summer and went AWOL on the supercommittee deliberations.

And that will be on top of the 8 percent ($ 3.5 billion) cut that will take effect in the middle of the 2012 — 13 school year as a result of the congressional supercommittee's failure to achieve a national deficit reduction plan.