Supercommittee Moves Further Apart as Deadline Nears

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Lawmakers on the congressional supercommittee made no visible progress ahead of a Nov. 23 deadline for a debt-reduction deal even as negotiators picked up the pace of bipartisan talks aimed at an agreement. Republicans and Democrats offered a series of competing plans in the ...

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