Nancy Pelosi says Dems willing to accept pain on deficit

Washington : DC : USA | Nov 03, 2011 at 10:21 AM PDT

Source: SF Gate

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Pelosi has for years led ferocious defenses of benefit levels in Social Security and Medicare, most recently in last summer's debt talks between the White House and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Today she said she has not put any lines in the sand, and that her three lieutenants on the committee... FULL ARTICLE AT SF Gate

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