Sen. Durbin calls for another Simpson-Bowles Commission

Published November 27, 2012 5:00am ET



Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called for a commission modeled on Simpson-Bowles — a deficit reduction panel created and ignored by President Obama — to develop a plan to reform Social Security.

“We should put together something like a Simpson-Bowles Commission to report back to us for the solvency of Social Security,” Durbin said on Morning Joe. “Right now it’s going to last for another 22 years untouched, but we have to make it stronger, longer.” Durbin served on the Simpson-Bowles Commission and voted for its proposals, but Obama buried the commission’s plan.

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