Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid changed strategies Tuesday, reflecting the urgency of trying to secure a deal through the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction.
One potential idea has been to find cuts that might be more politically palatable and produce a smaller package that would soften the blow of the “sequester” that would kick in should the super committee fail to find any agreement.
“No. 1, I’m not sure that a big deal is out of reach. [But] No. 2, the idea would be to come up with a package that was, of course, preferable, to the sequester. Measured against the sequester, there are lots of better outcomes,” Van Hollen said. “The key is to be able to come together and find that formula, whatever sort of magic formula we can get that gets people together on that point.”
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