DARREN SAMUELSOHN
Politico
August 16, 2011
Congress might be headed for a super turf war.
The 12-member supercommittee needs to find its $1.5 trillion in spending cuts from somewhere — and that means treading on the jurisdiction of some very powerful committee leaders who may not be happy to have ceded a significant amount of authority on perhaps the biggest spending cut bill in American history.
There have been other specially created committees in recent years, dealing with everything from homeland security to global warming. As the heads of those special panels learned, turf matters. Some lawmakers wait decades to get a gavel, and when they get one, they protect it with all they’ve got.
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