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A teleprompter displays House Speaker John Boehner's remarks about the fiscal cliff on Wednesday. Photo by Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call. With the outlines of a deal to avert the looming "fiscal cliff" beginning to appear, President Obama will do his part to help fill in the picture when ...
... And, by the way, The Associated Press is reporting tonight that the president will make his first post-election comments on the economy and the fiscal cliff at the White House tomorrow. And we will be hearing other views on how to deal with the fiscal cliff in the weeks ...
From Fiscal Cliff to Immigration Reform, What Will the Next Four Years Bring?
... into an awful tiff. So Boehner said "Let's fight," and Reid said "Yeah, you're right." "Let's have a drag race to the fiscal cliff!" CHORUS 1 Fiscal cliff The fiscal cliff is a danger zone. It's where grown men go when budgets are blown. If our ...
In March, thousands of students converged on Sacramento to protest budget cuts and fee hikes for the University of California system. Photo by Randy Pench/Sacramento Bee via Getty Images. Undoubtedly, the debate over the federal debt will continue to consume much of the political oxygen as we head into the fall elections. But there's another...
Christine Lagarde on Facing the 'Fiscal Cliff'
Wednesday we debut a new song by the superstar of C&E music (Country & Eastern), Merle Hazard. We have featured Merle, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Nashville money manager Jon Shayne, proudly and often here on Making Sen$e. Merle's new song, "Fiscal Cliff," is a complete original -- lyrics ...
Matt Gorman: ... those sorts of dealmakers, especially, for example, when we had the fiscal cliff back in 2010 or that whole thing, those were the dealmakers. Those were the people that could get in a room with a Joe Biden and hammer a deal out. Jonathan Capehart: Right. Matt Gorman ...
... the sorts of things that previous Republicans in an election year would never allow, something like a government shutdown or at least a so-called fiscal cliff situation happening so close to an election. Geoff Bennett: You mentioned the 2024 race. Senator Tim Scott, as you both know, suspended his ...
... homes. We are going to transform this city, if this is not under control, with a price tag of $12 billion during the time we're going -- we're going to have a fiscal cliff of federal dollars running out and dealing with the financial challenges we are already facing.
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