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November 21, 2011

Republican, Democratic “Super Committee” Members Set to Announce Defeat 
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The Republican and Democratic leaders of the so-called "supercommittee"
are set to declare defeat after three months of talks failed to bridge
deep divides over taxes and spending. The supercommittee’s inability
to reach a deal will trigger $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts
over 10 years to military and domestic programs, starting in 2013.
Democrats have blamed Republicans for their unwillingness to yield on a
no-new-taxes pledge. Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the
co-chairwoman of the supercommittee, appeared on CNN’s “State of the
Union" on Sunday.

Patty Murray, Supercommittee co-chairwoman: “As long as we have some
Republican lawmakers who feel more enthralled with a pledge they took to
a Republican lobbyist than they do to a pledge to the country to solve
the problems, this is going to be hard to do.”



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