First Read / MSNBC / Jo Ling Kent NASHUA, N.H. -- Newt Gingrich declared that the congressional "Super Committee's collapse" would be "good for America." "I think it's going to fail,” Gingrich said at a campaign stop at Rivier College. “And I thin… more »

Foxnews by Trish Turner Consider the impact -- the Super Committee co-chairs still have not agreed on a way to put this whole debt reduction effort out of its misery (and that's the expectation now: failure). But the ramifications of failure so fa… more »

RollCall By Meredith Shiner Roll Call Staff Congressional leaders met this week with two of the most important people in Washington: the co-chairmen of the Joint Committee for Deficit Reduction. There was only one problem: House Minor… more »

Reuters By Richard Cowan and Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats want tax hikes to be the first item negotiated in "super committee" deficit-reduction talks, trying to force Republicans to confront an issue at the heart of this year's budg… more »

The Daily Caller / By Amanda Carey   Some Democratic members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, tasked with identifying $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, have become the subject of criticism, but their appointments were only finalized… more »