Simpson-Bowles Supporters Get Campaign Backing in Return
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Republican Representative Charlie Bass was among only 38 U.S. House members who voted in March for a deficit-cutting measure based on a proposal by the leaders of President Barack Obama’s Simpson-Bowles commission.
Last week, the co-chairmen -- Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Alan Simpson -- returned the favor, supporting Bass in an uphill fight for an eighth term in a Democratic-leaning New Hampshire district. Earlier, Bowles endorsed former Maine Governor Angus King, an independent, for an open Senate seat. Simpson and Bowles appeared at a “fiscal summit” with Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a Democrat on the Nov. 6 ballot.