Social-program panel pushed as budget aid
Posted: December 13, 2009 at 3:38 a.m.
Alarmed by what they see as an unsustainable debt burden, House and Senate lawmakers from both political parties last week pushed legislation to create a special commission to write tax-andspending legislation for social programs.
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