In a Fox News Sunday interview, Co-Chairman on the “super committee”, Congressman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), comments on the committee’s stalemate. The show’s anchor, Chris Wallace, seems frustrated when he tells the Congressman that “this is a big missed opportunity.” Representative Hensarling sympathizes saying, “I agree.”
Meanwhile, according to a Fox News article, U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) are drafting legislation which would eliminate the trigger cuts to the military. On NBC’s “Meet the Press”, U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) said, “We do have the opportunity, even if the committee fails, to work around the sequester so that we still have $1.2 trillion in savings over 10 years, but it’s not done in the very Draconian way that Defense Secretary (Leon) Panetta is referring to.”
