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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Senate Passes Tax Increases on Wealthy Americans — WASHINGTON - The Senate, in a pre-dawn vote two hours after the deadline passed to avert automatic tax increases, overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday that would allow tax rates to rise only on affluent Americans …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Tentative Deal Is Reached to Raise Taxes on the Wealthy — WASHINGTON — Furious last-minute negotiations between the White House and the Senate Republican leadership on Monday secured a tentative agreement to allow tax rates to rise on affluent Americans, but the measure was not going to pass …
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Politico:
America awaits House action on cliff — House Republicans will hold a closed party meeting at 1 p.m. Tuesday, the first step in considering how to handle Senate passed legislation to avert tax increases and steep spending reductions that take hold this week.
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Suzy Khimm / Wonkblog:
Your fiscal cliff deal cheat sheet — The White House and the Senate have finalized the details of their deal to avert the fiscal cliff. The bill basically follows the framework that came out earlier this afternoon from the McConnell-Biden talks, with key additional details.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Another Fiscal Flop — Over the course of the 20th century, America built its welfare state. It was, by and large, a great achievement, expanding opportunity and security for millions. Unfortunately, as the population aged and health care costs surged, it became unaffordable.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Focus now turns to the House — The House returns to work on the first day of the new year, and will have to sort out its reaction to a Senate-passed bill meant to avoid the fiscal cliff. — The Senate bill, which the upper chamber approved in a 89-8 vote at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday …
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CBS News:
Fiscal cliff deal heads to House after Senate vote — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — Legislation to negate a fiscal cliff of across-the-board tax increases and sweeping spending cuts to the Pentagon and other government agencies is headed to the GOP-dominated House after bipartisan …
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Fiscal Cliff Deal Reached: White House, Hill Leaders Agree To Delay Sequester By Two Months … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Harry Reid , John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama , Barack Obama , Video, 2012 Fiscal Cliff, Harry Reid Fiscal Cliff, US Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Cliff 2012 …
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / CBS News:
It's official: Deal reached on “fiscal cliff” — As revelers in Times Square and cities and towns across the country wait for the ball to drop to ring in the new year, politicians in Washington have announced that a ball is not likely to drop on the average taxpayer.
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Here's what Republicans really hated about Obama's news conference
Here's what Republicans really hated about Obama's news conference
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Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Obama Fiscal Cliff Remarks Spark Republican Threats To Blow Up Deal
Obama Fiscal Cliff Remarks Spark Republican Threats To Blow Up Deal
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Wonkbook: Everything you need to know about the fiscal cliff deal
Wonkbook: Everything you need to know about the fiscal cliff deal
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Budget Deal Is Sealed
U.S. Budget Deal Is Sealed
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The case for the Dems' negotiating strategy
The case for the Dems' negotiating strategy
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Senate to hold New Year's Eve vote on Biden-GOP fiscal cliff deal
Senate to hold New Year's Eve vote on Biden-GOP fiscal cliff deal
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Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Fiscal Cliff: Live Updates On Congress, White House Negotiations
Fiscal Cliff: Live Updates On Congress, White House Negotiations
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Nancy Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Fiscal Compromise Would Set Stage For a New Year of Mini-Cliffs
Fiscal Compromise Would Set Stage For a New Year of Mini-Cliffs
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Paul Krugman:
Perspective on the Deal — To make sense of what just happened, we need to ask what is really at stake, and how much difference the budget deal makes in the larger picture. — So, what are the two sides really fighting about? Surely the answer is, the future of the welfare state.
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Paul Krugman:
Conceder In Chief? — OK, I've had my own sorta-kinda briefing on the apparent fiscal cliff deal, and I'm pretty much with Noam Scheiber. Viewed on its own, it's a bad and upsetting deal but not as terrible as initial rumors had it. But the strategic consequences are likely to be very bad indeed, and in very short order too.
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Democrats' Cliff Compromise Is Bad; But the Strategic Consequences Are Disastrous
Democrats' Cliff Compromise Is Bad; But the Strategic Consequences Are Disastrous
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell's Latest Gambit Is A Big Tax And Debt Limit Tell
McConnell's Latest Gambit Is A Big Tax And Debt Limit Tell
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Reuters:
Clinton suffers clot behind right ear, full recovery seen — (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suffered a blood clot in a vein between her brain and skull behind her right ear but is expected to make a full recovery, her doctors said on Monday in a statement released by the State Department.
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The European / The European Union Times:
Clinton Injured, US Navy Seal Killed In Secret US Mission To Iran
Clinton Injured, US Navy Seal Killed In Secret US Mission To Iran
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FRANCE 24:
Tunisians urged to spurn New Year greetings — AFP - A preacher from the hardline Salafist movement that has achieved growing prominence in Tunisia since the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings told Tunisians on Monday that the exchange of New Year's greetings was un-Islamic.
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Suzy Khimm / Wonkblog:
Obama's wrong: This ‘cliff’ deal still raises taxes on the middle class — This afternoon, President Obama spoke while surrounded by an ad hoc group of “middle-class Americans” who he promised would be protected from tax hikes by the 11th-hour “fiscal cliff” proposal. That's not what's going to happen.
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