President Barack Obama, flanked by the Co-Chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, left, and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, in the Rose Garden of the White House, 2010. President Obama tasked the commission with finding a bipartisan consensus to improve America's long-term fiscal health.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
