Crapo, Coburn
Two current Senate Republicans -- Mike Crapo of Idaho and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma -- were on the Bowles-Simpson panel and supported the proposal.
The plan, released in December 2010, fell three votes short of the 14 votes needed on the debt commission to send it to Congress for a vote. Among the opponents were Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, and Representative Dave Camp, a Michigan Republican, the top two tax-writers in Congress.
Bowles also said he thought the Obama administration was prepared to make significant changes to entitlement programs, based on conversations he has had with administration officials.