Obama’s jobs plan may add to supercommittee’s burden

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-jobs-plan-may-add-to-supercommittees-burden/2011/09/09/gIQA9Oq6FK_story.html

Obama has asked the group, widely dubbed the “supercommittee,” to expand its mandate and come up with enough in savings to offset the costs of his nearly $450 billion jobs plan, as well.

The added burden has some members of Congress concerned that the group is now expected to be not just super but downright magical.

“It’s like they’re becoming the Twelve Apostles. They’re going to dictate the law,” said Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona, a liberal Democrat who fears that the committee will recommend cuts he opposes. “It really worries many of us.”