Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the newly elected Minority Whip, invoked the Bowles-Simpson fiscal commission Wednesday as a “roadmap” for upcoming deficit-reduction negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff.
“We know what [our problems are] in the lame duck and we know what those are going forward — there’s no mystery about that,” he told reporters in the Capitol. “Nor is there really any mystery to some of the solutions, based on the president’s own bipartisan fiscal commission and others, that have sort of laid out the roadmap, and have shown us the way to address those issues.”
Republicans have praised the plan’s cuts to domestic and safety net spending, but have joined conservative activists in rejecting its multi-trillion dollar tax increases.
