http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/26/deficit-reduction-for-thee-but-not-me/?hpid=z3

 

Deficit reduction for thee, but not me

• By George Zornick

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• December 26 at 12:55 pm

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It appears that one of the first orders of business for Congress when it returns next month will be undoing some of the much-celebrated deficit reduction that was achieved before members left town. In what National Journal predicts could be a “rare bipartisan moment,” senators from both parties are cooking up ways to restore the $6 billion in cuts to military pensions over 10 years.