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Opposing views were highlighted at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Tuesday while discussing a proposed commission that would circumvent Congress?s impasse on the budget. The new commission would look to create savings by eliminating redundancies in government agencies. Advocates of the proposal said that the body would focus on management and operations initiatives rather than taxation and social policy to ?do something for the American people.? Voices from unions representing federal employees labeled the proposal as a concession to corporate special interests that would award them more government contracts.