Supercommittee meltdown: Behind the scenes

By Jake Sherman, Manu Raju and John Breshahan – David Krone, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) chief of staff, and Barry Jackson, the top aide to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), had been quietly deputized to find a last-ditch deal and avert yet another failure of Congress’s own making. Both had been here before — they were instrumental in preventing the government from shutting down...