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... Boehner have agreed to negotiate one-on-one in an effort to broker a deal to prevent the country from going over the so-called fiscal cliff at year's end. The New York Times' Jonathan Weisman and Peter Baker report that the request to exclude Senate leaders and the ...
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday that negotiations over the fiscal cliff were progressing. But it was the administration's demand to give the president authority over the nation's debt ceiling that roiled tempers on Capitol Hill. Judy Woodruff reports. ... JUDY WOODRUFF: With 25 days left until the year ...
... Wednesday, speaking by phone for the first time in a week as the two leaders attempt to broker an agreement to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. The conversation came on a day when both men delivered public statements that gave the impression that little progress had been achieved in ...
I escaped from Washington for about a week and a half after Thanksgiving, grateful for a change of scenery after the exciting but long election season. Before I left, President Obama and congressional Republicans were edging toward the "fiscal cliff," unable to come to agreement on how to resolve differences ...
... on wheels, sno-cone machines & more twitter.com/TomCoburn/stat...— Sen. Tom Coburn M.D. (@TomCoburn) December 4, 2012 Overlooked point. RT @lmplague: @thefix The fiscal cliff doesn't even matter if the world ends on December 21. #mayans2012— The Fix (@TheFix) December 4, 2012 Too good. Latest Salahi for ...
... million worth of cargo every day. Wall Street had a day of ups and downs, and investors watched economic reports and weighed chances for a fiscal cliff deal in Washington. The Dow Jones industrial average gained more than 82 points to close at 13,034. But the Nasdaq fell nearly ...
... one of the people you have written about in the past who you called deficit scolds who were touting a phantom menace known as the fiscal cliff. PAUL KRUGMAN,PrincetonUniversity: Yes. GWEN IFILL: Am I right about that? PAUL KRUGMAN: Fiscal cliff is not a phantom menace. The deficit right ...
... triggering automatic spending cuts and tax increases. ... GWEN IFILL: Neither side showed signs of budging today as the nation edged closer toward a so-called fiscal cliff that could raise taxes by year's end. We begin with a report from NewsHour congressional correspondent Kwame Holman. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We ...
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