WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday tapped Sens. Patty Murray, John Kerry and Max Baucus as his three choices for the “super committee” created to cut more than $1 trillion in federal spending by year’s end.
Murray, D-Wash; Kerry, D-Mass.; and Baucus, D-Mont., will join nine yet-to-be-named lawmakers chosen by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to round out a congressional committee that was born of last week’s deal to raise the federal debt ceiling.
The panel will be charged with devising a plan to reduce federal budget deficits by more than $1 trillion. In Washington, it’s being called a “super committee,” and it promises to be the most closely watched congressional panel for the remainder of the year.
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