National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform

Created by President Barack Obama, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is chartered to create a proposal to balance the U.S. budget, other than interest on the national debt, by 2015. Congressional leaders have agreed to vote on its proposals by 1 December 2010.

Each party in each house is entitled to name three members, although only the House Democrats have done so.

Presidentially appointed members

• Alan Simpson Wyoming
• Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles
• Ann Fudge a native Washingtonian who rose to the highest ranks of corporate America, serving as president of Young and Rubicam Brands from 2003 to 2006. Fudge also worked in senior executive positions at General Mills and Kraft, and has served on the boards of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
• David Cote the Republican chairman of Honeywell International, who was a staunch supporter of Obama's push for a big stimulus package last year
• Alice Rivlin Brookings Institution economist Alice Rivlin, the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office, budget director in the Clinton White House and former vice chair of the Federal Reserve
• Andy Stern, presidentService Employees International Union