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News

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August 11, 2011 Debt Panel Members Face Conflicting Pressures | Associated Press
August 11, 2011 Republicans Set Debt-Panel Roster | Wall Street Journal
August 11, 2011 GOP Announces Its Budget Deficit 'Super Committee' Selections | LA Times
August 10, 2011 Latest Picks for Debt Panel Spark Some Pessimism | Associated Press
August 10, 2011 Editorial: This is a Matter of National Willpower | Florida Times-Union
August 10, 2011 Fact Checker: Obama’s Claim That the Debt Problem Can ‘Go Away’ | Washington Post
August 09, 2011 What is the S&P Rating? | MyFox9
August 09, 2011 Deficit Panel Faces Tax Fight | Roll Call
August 08, 2011 Tax Incentives on the Block as Lawmakers Eye Deficit Reduction | Fox News
August 08, 2011 Deficit Hawks Say Downgrade Shows Need for Grand Bargain on Debt | The Hill
August 08, 2011 Jim DeMint Says the Debt-Ceiling Bill Won't Actually Cut the National Debt | PolitiFact
August 08, 2011 Budget Groups Use Ratings Downgrade to Press for New Deficit Action | Congressional Quarterly (subscription required)
August 08, 2011 Pete Peterson: A New Chance to Get Budget Right | Politico
August 08, 2011 How Bad Will Economic News Get in U.S. and Worldwide? | USA Today
August 08, 2011 Maya MacGuineas: S&P Rating: How to Get Back to AAA | CNN Money
August 08, 2011 Jonathan Capehart: The S&P Downgrade is a Much-Needed Kick in the Pants | Washington Post
August 07, 2011 Rating Downgrade: Did S&P Get it Right? | CNN Money
August 06, 2011 After Downgrade, Debt Panel May Be Congress's First Test | Wall Street Journal
August 06, 2011 Maya MacGuineas: With Downgrade, Now Can We Get Serious About Debt? | CNN
August 05, 2011 Jonathan Alter: Coming Lobbyist Brawl May (Really) Fix Our Taxes | Bloomberg
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