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Deficit Super Committee Is Not a Superhero

By Stan Collender
Roll Call Contributing Writer
Sept. 13, 2011, Midnight

The name "super committee" mistakenly gives the impression that its members will be able to do their work faster than a fiscal locomotive, change the course of mighty budget politics and bend the health care cost curve in their bare hands.

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