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Monday, November 21, 2011

GREEN PARTY/INDEPENDENTS NEEDED!-DEFICIT TALKS COLLAPSE

Lawmakers Trade Blame as Deficit Talks Crumble

By ERIC LIPTON

Published: November 20, 2011--New York Times

WASHINGTON — With the hours ticking away toward a self-imposed deadline, Congressional leaders conceded Sunday that talks on a sweeping deficit agreement were near failure and braced for recriminations over their inability to reach a deal.

J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the debt committee co-chairs, conferred at the panel's last public hearing on Nov. 1.

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The halls of Congress were largely empty as the Congressional deficit reduction committee appeared to have failed to reach a compromise as its Monday deadline approached.

The stalemate was the latest sign of partisan deadlock in Washington, which members of both parties do not expect to lift until the 2012 election has clarified which party has the upper hand.
Barring an unexpected turnaround before Monday’s deadline, the failure of the special Congressional deficit committee will be the third high-profile effort to fall short of a deal in the last 12 months, including a bipartisan deficit commission and talks last summer between President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner.
By law, the special Congressional committee’s inability to reach an agreement will trigger $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts over 10 years to the military and domestic programs, to start in 2013.
As time wound down to a Monday night deadline for an agreement, Capitol Hill lacked the frenzied negotiation typical of a Congressional race to beat the clock. Instead, many members — well aware that Congressional approval ratings are near historic lows in polls — seemed resigned to the fact that Democrats and Republicans remained far apart on major budget issues, especially tax increases on the affluent, which Democrats insist must be part of any deficit solution and which Republicans oppose.
The White House called on the 12 members of the special committee to finish their work, but with no expectation of a breakthrough, the leaders of the committee planned to issue a statement on Monday acknowledging that they had failed to reach an agreement. And lawmakers on the panel, which is evenly divided between the two parties, blamed one another for the failure.