Tuesday Group and 'Blue Dogs' Join Forces to Fight Deficit
By Catharine Richert and Bart Jansen, CQ Staff
July 16, 2008 – 11:07 p.m.
Watch for the House’s most fiscally conservative Democrats and Republicans to start meeting regularly, in the same room at the same time.
The GOP Tuesday Group and the Democratic “Blue Dogs” have long shared the goal of reducing the federal deficit.
The two caucuses met together in the past week along with Pete Peterson, creator and benefactor of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to deficit reduction, and David Walker, who earlier this year left the top position at the Government Accountability Office to run the foundation.
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