Obama Urges Bipartisan Effort on Soaring Deficits
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 29th, 2010 4:52 am by HL
Obama Urges Bipartisan Effort on Soaring Deficits
President Barack Obama said Tuesday Washington must urgently confront unpleasant truths about deficits. “There are few issues on which there is more vigorous bipartisan agreement than fiscal responsibility,” he said, flanked by Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., the two men he asked to lead efforts to reach a consensus plan for the deficit. “But in practice, this responsibility for the future is often overwhelmed by the politics of the moment.”