Amid continued spending fights, lawmakers entertain an old idea: a fiscal commission
Despite bipartisan interest in a panel to examine deficit reduction, divisions that doomed past efforts remain.
Debt Commission cochairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson speak to the media after a meeting of the commission on Capitol Hill in 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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