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Tuesday on the NewsHour, John Boehner announces a tentative budget deal to avert a fiscal crisis. Also: A look inside Bashar al-Assad’s Syria, how a California native became the Dalai Lama’s personal physician, the expense of caring for Alzheimer's patients, an Italian town that’s crumbling ...
... that create the jobs in all 435 congressional districts across the country. And they have been dealing with more regulatory environment, higher taxes through the fiscal cliff deal, high commodity costs, and I think Tsedeye brought up a good point. Part of the reason why you see folks staying in ...
... getting too excited yet. Here is what I wrote in this space on Dec. 3, 2012, during the media's panic coverage of the approaching fiscal cliff: "What we are witnessing now is very similar to what we saw during the summer of 2011, when Democrats and Republicans waited until ...
... weapons, but they also would like to see armed police officers in the state's public schools. That same Quinnipiac poll found dissatisfaction with the "fiscal cliff" deal among Virginia voters. Seventy-three percent of Virginia Republicans and 62 percent of Virginia independents said they were more frustrated about the ...
... 635 points. Speaking to the Economic Club of New York in November 2012, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that congressional inaction with regard to the fiscal cliff, the raising of the debt ceiling, and the longer-term budget situation was creating uncertainty that "appears already to be affecting private spending ...
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