memeorandum: Statement from the President on the Senate Deal to Extend Middle Class Tax Cuts (The White House)

3:05 AM ET, January 2, 2013

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House approves ‘fiscal cliff’ deal, rescinding broad tax hike — This post has been updated. See below for details. — WASHINGTON — The House gave final approval Tuesday night to a bill to rescind tax increases for the vast majority of Americans, but only after a day of closed-door …

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David Rogers / Reuters:

House pulls plug on Sandy aid bill — House Republicans abruptly pulled the plug Tuesday night on their promise to take up this week an emergency supplemental disaster aid bill for Northeast states damaged by Hurricane Sandy. — The decision is a stunning reversal since just hours …

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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

GOP Congressmen Suggest Republican Senators Who Voted For ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Compromise Were Drunk — House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), who is joining a growing number of Republicans trying to add more spending cuts to the last-minute fiscal cliff deal and send it back to the Senate …

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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:

CBO: ‘Fiscal cliff’ deal carries $4 trillion price tag over next decade — The Senate deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff” will add roughly $4 trillion to the deficit when compared to current law, according to new numbers from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:

Amid Pressure, House Passes Fiscal Deal — WASHINGTON — House Republicans, fearful of blame and political recrimination for looming tax increases on most Americans, reversed course on Tuesday and cleared the way for House approval of a measure that would avert most of the increases …

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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:

Could A Boehner-Cantor Rift Send The Country Over The Fiscal Cliff? — A rift at the highest level of House Republican leadership is imperiling Senate-backed legislation to yank the economy back from over the fiscal cliff — legislation that House Republicans directly asked their GOP counterparts in the Senate to negotiate and pass.

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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
House Republicans gauging support for two budget options

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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Boehner's 100 loyal soldiers might give him political cover on ‘fiscal cliff’

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CNNMoney.com:
CBO: Fiscal cliff deal adds $4 trillion to deficits

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David Rogers / Politico:
The price tag: $4 trillion added to deficit

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Washington Post:
House members meet to review Senate-passed cliff deal

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Peter Baker / New York Times:
On the Left, Seeing Obama Giving Away Too Much, Again

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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
U.S. Fiscal Cliff Deal Leaves House Republicans Angry, Deal In Jeopardy

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John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Prepare To Vote On Fiscal Deal

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Democrats will reject House changes to tax bill, aides say

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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
White House Claims Victory In Fiscal Deal

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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:

House Passes Fiscal Cliff Deal — The House of Representatives gave final passage to the fiscal cliff deal Tuesday night. The final vote was 257-167.

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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:

Part 1 of the Fiscal Cliff is Over. Now Gird Yourself for Part 2. — The fiscal cliff is dead. Long live the fiscal cliff. — It's over. Sort of. The Senate voted 89-8 to prevent middle-class taxes from rising while allowing rates to increase for taxpayers with incomes over $450,000.

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BREITBART.COM:
FISCAL CLIFF DEAL: HOLLYWOOD GETS TAX INCENTIVE EXTENSION

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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Say Yes to the Mess — The fiscal cliff deal that the Senate …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

‘Journal News’ hires armed security guards — The Journal News of West Nyack, N.Y., has hired armed security guards to defend its offices after receiving a torrent of phone calls and emails responding to the paper's publication of the names and addresses of area residents with pistol permits.

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Dskriloff / The Rockland County Times:

The Journal News is Armed and Dangerous — ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES EXCLUSIVE — Armed guards from RGA Investigations have taken up post at the Journal News' Rockland County headquarters — Journal News' Rockland headquarters in West Nyack, Town of Clarkstown — Guns are good for the goose but NOT for the gander.

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John Hinderaker / Power Line:

An Optimistic Take On the “Cliff” Deal — Here are some glass-half-full observations on last night's McConnell-Biden fiscal deal from an inveterate optimist. — Raising taxes on those who are already paying roughly double their fair share, while leaving everyone else's taxes the same, is lousy public policy.

Ross Douthat:

Liberalism's $400,000 Problem — If the tax debate could be simplified to a liberal desire to make sure the tax burden is borne by those who can most easily afford it and a conservative desire to keep taxes as low as possible on as many people as possible, the fiscal-cliff bargain …

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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:

Putting America's Tax Hike In Perspective — One of those occasions when one picture really does speak a thousands words. — Houston, we may have a spending problem. — Average: — Your rating: None Average: 4.9 (79 votes)

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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
FISCAL CLIFF DEAL: $1 IN SPENDING CUTS FOR EVERY $41 IN TAX INCREASES

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David Brooks / New York Times:
Another Fiscal Flop

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Robert Pear / New York Times:

Employers Must Offer Family Care, Affordable or Not — WASHINGTON — In a long-awaited interpretation of the new health care law, the Obama administration said Monday that employers must offer health insurance to employees and their children, but will not be subject to any penalties if family coverage is unaffordable to workers.

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