from FireDogLake, no less
John Spratt, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, was recently appointed by President Obama to the Debt Commission. I’ve been going through documents looking at his history regarding Social Security reform, and his involvement in “secret meetings†in 1997 authorized by Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles. Bowles was at the time negotiating a deal between Clinton and Newt Gingrich that included partial privatization of Social Security.