Obama to Hill: People want action, cooperation
By The Associated Press
This article was originally published November 16, 2012 at 10:14 a.m. Updated November 16, 2012 at 10:33 a.m.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama urged the leaders of Washington’s divided government on Friday to join him in “tough compromises” to keep the economy from plummeting and taxes from rising for millions of Americans in the new year.
“I think we’re all aware that we have some urgent business to do,” Obama said at the White House with the nation’s top Republican, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, at his side.
Sitting to the president’s other side was the Senate’s leader, Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, as negotiations over the “fiscal cliff” began in earnest.
Without a deal between Obama and Congress, a series of tax increases and spending cuts will kick in on Jan.1, with potential to throw the nation into recession. All sides have a deep political stake in coming to terms, but Obama and Republicans in Congress are at a stalemate on raising taxes on incomes of more than $250,000.
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SPA says... November 16, 2012 at 7:02 p.m.
Yes. We the People want action, cooperation, compromise, adult behavior. No more gridlock and no more political agendas.
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