A selection of notable quotes from yesterday’s meeting of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

A roundup of this morning’s must-read budget and economic stories.

Today, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, or the “Fiscal Commission,” released its final proposal on how to bring the country back from the fiscal brink.

The Fiscal Commission is meeting this morning to release its final proposal to tackle our growing deficit. The commission has delayed its vote on the plan until Friday.

The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform’s (“Fiscal Commission”) penultimate public meeting has long been set for today. But according to The Wall Street Journal, the Commission has canceled the meeting to instead focus on private negotiations.

Attention budget watchers! After months of meetings, debate, speculation the Administration’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (the “Fiscal Commission”) is due to release its official recommendations on Wednesday.

A roundup of this morning’s must-read budget and economic stories.

As we look forward to the December 1 report from the Administration’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, we thought it might be useful to take a look back at the successes – and the failures – of past presidential commissions.

“In a ranking of 35 cities, by ‘Travel and Leisure’ magazine, Los Angeles finished second to last in intelligence. All I can say, thank god for Washington, D.C.” – Jay Leno

The bipartisan commission examining how to cut the federal debt ended three days of closed-door meetings Thursday without a firm agreement among its 18 members, with several saying the panel was still at odds over how to contain the ballooning costs of health care.