Supercommittee runs risk of turf war

DARREN SAMUELSOHN
Politico
August 16, 2011

Congress might be headed for a super turf war.

The 12-member supercommittee needs to find its $1.5 trillion in spending cuts from somewhere — and that means treading on the jurisdiction of some very powerful committee leaders who may not be happy to have ceded a significant amount of authority on perhaps the biggest spending cut bill in American history.

There have been other specially created committees in recent years, dealing with everything from homeland security to global warming. As the heads of those special panels learned, turf matters. Some lawmakers wait decades to get a gavel, and when they get one, they protect it with all they’ve got.

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5 Responses to “Supercommittee runs risk of turf war”

  1. Please,all this talk about “turf wars.” is just theater for the masses who won’t pay attention to it because they are sitting at home in a stupor obsessing about the cancellation of Kate plus 8 and drooling over the nfl.

  2. Super this … super that …

    P.S. Super BS is what !!! …… ( that even rimes !!! )

  3. Our US Constitution mentions that there is to be NO standing army. Most of the military who stay in longer than 6 years are “LIFERS” who are feeding off all of us taxpayers and it’s UN-Constitutional. I served my Country in a war which I felt I and many other vets were misled by our GOVERNMENT.

  4. Hey, I know what:
    Bring our troops home.
    Abolish the Un-federal Reserve.
    Charge this Administration and all associated with it and all previous Administrations
    that are still alive with treason and all laws that apply.
    Abolish the CIA, FBI, BATFE, FEMA, DHS, USMC – or at least stop them from taking
    orders directly from the President.
    Abolish ALL Executive Orders.

    That would be a start!!!

  5. Lets see there is the Nazi American war machine invading country after country. Lots of bases to shut down. But instead they are going to loot military retirement funds of individuals.

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