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Obama to Create Deficit Commission

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After Republicans sink bipartisan deal.

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Alex Wong

Republicans who attack President Obama over the national debt were unwilling to create a bipartisan deficit commission with him. So the president has decided to go around them: He will issue an executive order on Thursday creating an 18-member deficit commission.

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