GOP picks its six members for super committee
House Speaker John Boehner has named GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas to co-chair a powerful new committee that will try to come up with a bipartisan plan this fall to reduce the federal budget deficit by more than $1 trillion.
| Poll: Most say US on wrong track
Economic fears are weighing heavily on Americans, with a large majority saying the United States is on the wrong track and nearly half believing the worst is yet to come, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said Wednesday. | Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032552/device/rss/rss.xml |