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Congress Barrels Toward Fiscal Cliff

by Tamara Keith, NPR
November 11, 2012

The dust hadn't settled on Tuesday's election when people started talking about the fiscal cliff, the expiration of tax cuts and automatic spending cuts set to hit at the start of the year. The fiscal cliff will dominate the political dialogue through the end of the year, at least.

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