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Summary: Should Congress fail to pass a balanced budget by the end of 2012, America could face serious repercussions. Gwen Ifill talks to the Congressional Budget Office's former director Alice Rivlin and Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's Maya MacGuineas about why budget reform talks need to shift to policy, not politics.