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Taxpayers react to fiscal cliff deal.
( {"video_url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTsan91Yy40"} ) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Past its own New Year's deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national "fiscal cliff" of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a struggle ...
President Obama spoke shortly after the House passed a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" tax increases and spending cuts. He said the deal is “just one step in a broader effort.”
President Obama, speaking in front of a crowd at the White House on New Years Eve, reported that lawmakers have come to an agreement that would prevent tax increases for most Americans, resolving some aspects of the fiscal cliff."I appears that an agreement is within sight, but it is ...
President Obama Discusses Last-ditch Efforts to Avert the Fiscal Cliff
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Senior lawmakers met with President Obama, Vice President Biden and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at the White House to attempts to bring forward a final budget plan to avoid the fiscal cliff. Jeffrey Brown reports. ... JEFFREY BROWN: The final weekend has now arrived before the fiscal cliff hits on New ...
... be a different kind of secretary of state. JUDY WOODRUFF: Less than a minute. John Boehner may have gone back to Ohio for the weekend. Fiscal cliff, do you know something behind the scenes that's happening that we don't know about, David? DAVID BROOKS: I know the gestalt ...
House Speaker John Boehner walks past reporters at the Capitol after meeting with President Obama at the White House on Thursday. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. President Obama avoided one fight Thursday, accepting the decision by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice to withdraw herself from consideration for secretary of state, just as...
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