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Dem angst increases over supercommitee's secretive processBy Mike Lillis - 11/09/11 05:00 AM ET A growing number of Democrats are hammering the supercommittee process as both anti-democratic and lacking transparency. Some of the lawmakers are wary that just 12 members would speak on behalf of the entire Congress, while others are critical that, just weeks before the panel’s deadline, the deliberations remain a black box to all but a few insiders. “This whole idea of a supercommittee is kind of a bad idea, Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.) told C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” this month. “This is not an open, transparent process,”...

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