For all the attention being devoted to the congressional “supercommittee,” the panel’s deficit-cutting is actually designed to be a team effort. Under the law that created the new panel, every standing House and Senate committee was tasked with passing along recommendations for what spending to cut within their own jurisdictions. That includes the panel that helps run half of the Capitol — the House Administration Committee . And not surprisingly, Republicans and Democrats don’t see eye to eye on what Congress should slash from its own budget. Read full article > >

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On the supercommittee agenda: Cutting Congress’s budget