Item 1 of 3 Erskine Bowles (L) and Alan Simpson (R), co-chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, take their seats to testify before the U.S. Joint Select Committee ...

The Simpson-Bowles plan, a follow-up proposal that builds on the commission's 2010 report, comes as policymakers brace for automatic budget cuts that appear increasingly likely to kick in starting ...

Could a new deficit-reduction plan from Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles lead to a budget compromise? The 2010 healthcare law could lower the cost of children's dental coverage; Don't want to work ...

Simpson and Bowles would add $2.5 trillion in new deficit cuts over 2014-2023 on top of about $2.7 trillion estimated to have already been enacted through cuts to agency budgets and January's tax ...

Simpson said while he had worked with Bowles as a senator, he only really got to know him through working with him on the debt commission. "He's a special man," Simpson said. "He's something." ...

Bipartisan deficit hawks Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have released a gentler federal budget proposal than their earlier attempts, this time including $585 billion in healthcare spending over ...

Sen. Conrad is urging his colleagues to pass a blueprint for long-term deficit reduction based on Simpson-Bowles that looks beyond the short-fix Budget Control Act passed last summer, which is law ...

Republican Alan Simpson, a former U.S. senator from Wyoming, and Democrat Erskine Bowles, a former chief of staff to President Clinton, chaired the president’s bipartisan deficit commission that ...

When Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles formally released their controversial deficit reduction plan earlier this month, they patted each other on the back as if to say, “Well done — everyone can ...

Key Senator Warns Against Simpson-Bowles, Arguing Revenues Can Be Raised Via Growth of the Economy This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022.

Bowles, just like her head coach Bree Northern, will play at Simpson after two seasons with the Corsairs. (Dylan McNeill/Times-Standard) A lot of things aligned for Bowles and Simpson University.

In the magazine this week, I detail the complaints: From Warren Buffett, Tom Friedman, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, Alice Rivlin and David Walker. The common thread is that Obama played the ...