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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (40751)	1/28/2010 3:31:20 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

If congress approves the procedure, it can cancel it. But it doesn't even have to cancel it, all it has to do is introduce a separate bill. Nothing in this procedure would prevent congress from doing that. With the base closing commission, it was at least one fairly narrow issue, and everyone knew that any separate bill outside the process would be shot down while the process was still law. The budget balance for the whole government isn't one narrow issue, it covers every aspect of spending and taxation for the whole federal government. Either the commission is going to rubber stamp and agreement that's already worked out politically before hand, or its going to get nowhere. There is no way that congress will effectively delegate that much control over so many things to a commission, even one that contains senior members of congress. And if a serious objection arises within congress as to some aspect of the commissions recommendations, any member of congress can go ahead and take all the recommendations of the panel, and incorporate all the ones they don't object to in their own bill. Technically the panel's recommendations would not be altered, but they would be bypassed and the effect would be the same.