Biden Emerges to Lead Deficit Talks in Congress With Obama's `Full Accord'

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-19/biden-emerges-to-lead-deficit-talks-in-congress-with-obama-s-full-accord-.html

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Biden, who directed the White House campaign to reach an accord on this year’s budget and avoid a government shutdown, will now head negotiations between Republican and Democratic lawmakers to come up with a plan by the end of June for comprehensive debt reduction. He has also been tapped to find votes in Congress to raise the U.S. debt limit, according to an administration official who asked for anonymity.

“He can do things; he has the president’s full accord,” Alan Simpson, co-chairman of the president’s debt commission, told reporters after an April 14 White House meeting with Obama, Biden and Erskine Bowles, the debt panel’s other leader.

Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, said one of the best decisions Obama made was asking Biden to be the “point person” on the deficit discussions.

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House and Senate leaders from both parties will pick members from their caucuses to take part in the talks, and Biden will host the first meeting with lawmakers on May 5 at Blair House, the White House said yesterday.

[msongs]

1. close most US bases in the EU for a start, nt

[midnight]

2. We need capital to address the deficit.... The extradition was, and cont payers gave lots of capital

to the mega rich that don't care about creating jobs... So besides taxing the middle class some more, this jobless recovery will not help the deficit...

[Lasher]

3. This could be a good thing.

Maybe Biden won't be so eager to capitulate to himself.