<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><DIV>"Specifically, they have to get behind an effort now being hatched by a group of courageous senators: Saxby Chambliss, Mark Warner, Tom Coburn, Dick Durbin, Mike Crapo and Kent Conrad. These public heroes have been leading an effort to write up the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission report as legislation to serve as the beginning for a serious effort to get our house in order. They’ve been meeting with 20 to 40 of their colleagues to push this along. It’s not always the most famous senators that are involved in this effort. It’s the midranking and junior ones who are willing to risk political ire to save the republic."</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/opinion/11brooks.html?ref=opinion">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/opinion/11brooks.html?ref=opinion</A></DIV></div><br>
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