“Few people took it as seriously and had as much hope for the potential for bipartisan compromise on this incredibly important issue as Portman did,” said Jeff Sadosky, a GOP lobbyist who was an aide to Portman during that time.
Ten years later, the Gang of 22 emerged comparatively organically, more out of a will to succeed than from being tapped for a task.
'Self-selected'
While the supercommittee, Portman said, was leadership-driven, the Gang of 22 was “self-selected.” The supercommittee had members of all different ideologies; the Gang was more moderate. The supercommittee, he acknowledges, was “a little more formal,” than the bipartisan group, which first met over Zoom, then shifted to the Capitol during long nights where they huddled over takeout food, sometimes with a trio of White House advisers.
“I think it was important we learn to trust each other in the group,” he said, comparing the group to a family that had to work out differences. “You have to figure out a way to get everyone moving in the same direction.”
While everyone in the Gang of 22 seemed interested in getting to yes, that wasn’t necessarily the case in 2011. “Democrats weren’t going to touch entitlement spending,” he said of the supercommittee. “Republicans weren’t going to raise taxes.” Neither side, he said, would budge.
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