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Alan K. Simpson (left) and Erskine Bowles, leaders of the White House’s defunct debt commission, are asking lawmakers to cancel the sequesters and embrace a $2.4 trillion deficit-reduction plan they proposed Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Ex-commission members chase a solution to runaway debt

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

"The 'Fiscal Cliff'" (Illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times)

LAMBRO: Obama’s ‘Age of Uncertainty’

By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times

Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, sees chances for avoiding going over the “fiscal cliff” at less than 1 in 3. President Obama is sending aides to Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with legislative leaders. (Associated Press)

Are parties hurtling toward ‘fiscal cliff’?

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Bowles (AP photo)

Simpson, Bowles say their debt panel plan is still the best option

By David Hill - The Washington Times

"I know this is sort of geeky stuff, but the hard reality is that the amount of time it takes to put together these plans is really daunting. This takes weeks and weeks and months and months of effort, and that's why I think it's important to begin."
- Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat

Democrats punt on Senate budget bill for third year

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (right), Wisconsin Republican, with Republican Conference Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, holds a copy of their budget proposal during a news conference March 29, 2012, on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

Congress’ ability to pass a budget grows more doubtful each year

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican (Associated Press)

House rejects Bowles-Simpson, Obama budgets

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. Mark R. Warner, Virginia Democrat, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, after the Senate passed the debt ceiling plan. (The Washington Times)

Warner backs push to revive deficit plan

By David Eldridge - The Washington Times

Supercommittee member, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, Montana Democrat, fends off reporters as he arrives to meet in the Capitol Hill office of Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, with other Supercommittee members as time for action by the deficit reduction panel grows short, Monday Nov. 21, 2011, of Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Deficit supercommittee announces failure

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Supercommittee Co-Chairmen Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Texas Republican (right), and fellow committee member Rep. James E. Clyburn, South Carolina Democrat (left), welcome Erskine Bowles (second from right) and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson (second from left) to a Capitol Hill hearing Tuesday before the supercommittee heard testimony from the two former co-chairmen of similar panels. (Associated Press)

Experienced deficit cutters urge supercommittee to triple its goal

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction co-chairmen Sen. Patty Murray, Washington Democrat, and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Texas Republican, are being pressed "to stabilize our debt as a share of the economy and assure America's fiscal well-being." (Associated Press)

Bipartisan House group tells debt panel to ‘go big’

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Economy Briefs

By From wire dispatches and staff reports - The Washington Times

The Obama budget vs. the Ryan budget

By Grover Norquist - The Washington Times

Illustration: Crossroads by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

NORQUIST: The Obama Budget vs. the Ryan Budget

By Grover Norquist

Support erodes for deficit panel plan

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

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FOR IT: Sens. Kent Conrad (right), North Dakota Democrat, and Judd Gregg, New Hampshire Republican, the top two lawmakers on the president's deficit-reduction panel, endorsed its recommendations Wednesday.

Deficit panel leaders upbeat

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Vote on deficit-slashing measures delayed

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Illustration: Chopping block by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

BACON: Serious proposal for restoring fiscal sanity

By James A. Bacon - The Washington Times

Illustration: Capitol cuts by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

FRASER: Good ideas, bad ideas

By Alison Acosta Fraser - The Washington Times