Set up a commission to reduce Medicare waste?
In 2010, the men led a commission to reduce the debt, drawing bipartisan support.
As a result, Labour authorities in eight or so British cities have set up fairness commissions to reduce income differences locally.
For the parliamentary elections in 2010, Mr. Karzai forced the commission to reduce its foreign membership to two experts, giving Afghans a majority.
In September Tony Blair joined forces with his French and German counterparts to plead with the commission to reduce the burden on business and the US authorities have also urged restraint.
* A change in enforcement efforts by the commission to reduce citations for minor violations, such as cleanliness and record-keeping, and concentrate on service issues, such as refusal to take passengers to requested destinations.
As some administration officials acknowledge, that effectively takes those fast-growing entitlement programs off the table for deficit reduction just as Mr. Obama's bipartisan commission to reduce the mounting national debt gets to work.
Through innovative public-relations techniques, widely copied by other brokers, the company extensively advertised its services, cultivated small accounts, established a training school for stockbrokers, and paid brokers a salary instead of straight commission to reduce the incidence of needless portfolio churning to generate commissions.
The Blue Dogs thought they had agreement on an independent commission to reduce Medicare reimbursement rates, known as MedPac, and on using Senate HELP Committee language to create a public option that Americans could buy in to, Ross said.
Similarly, one of my main criticisms of the proposed blue ribbon commission to reduce deficits has been the way it outsources the responsibility to make hard choices about reining in deficits to an unaccountable panel.
