{"id":700025,"date":"2010-03-24T18:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T22:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80383"},"modified":"2010-03-24T18:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T22:14:06","slug":"spratt-becerra-and-schakowsky-named-to-white-house-deficit-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/700025","title":{"rendered":"Spratt, Becerra and Schakowsky Named to White House Deficit Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) just named the latest members of the White House deficit commission: Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-S.C.), Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.).<\/p>\n<p>President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2010\/02\/obama-to-name-deficit-commission\/1\" >launched<\/a> the panel last month after the Senate &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0110\/32047.html\" >behind a cynical group of previously supportive Republicans<\/a> &#8212; killed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-01-26\/senate-rejects-conrad-plan-to-create-deficit-cutting-commission.html\" >a proposal<\/a> to create a similar commission. The panel, composed of 12 members of Congress and various budget experts, will make recommendations to Congress about ways to rein in deficit spending &#8212; a concession that Capitol Hill lawmakers can&#8217;t do the job on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) just named the latest members of the White House deficit commission: Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (D-S.C.), Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). President Obama launched the panel last month after the Senate &#8212; behind a cynical group of previously supportive Republicans &#8212; killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2W6J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}