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BVictor1

(229 posts)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 03:04 AM Jan 2013

Senate voting on deal to avoid fiscal cliff.

Source: CNN.com

CNN) -- Senate leaders and the White House struck a last-minute deal to avert the feared fiscal cliff Monday night, with Vice President Joe Biden headed to the Capitol Hill to pitch the plan to fellow Democrats.
"Happy New Year," Biden, who became the Democratic point man in the talks, told reporters. "Did you think we would be here New Year's Eve?"


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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/31/politics/fiscal-cliff/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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Senate voting on deal to avoid fiscal cliff. (Original Post) BVictor1 Jan 2013 OP
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