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May 21, 2013

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House expected to send fiscal cliff deal back to the Senate

The House of Representatives is poised to kick the "fiscal cliff" bill back to the Senate with changes, according to House GOP members emerging from a meeting on the deal Tuesday afternoon. "I think they're going to try to see if there is an amendment that can get 218 votes," said Rep. Mark Amodei, emerging from a meeting with House Republicans in the basement of the Capitol. "I'm not afraid to vote for some [tax] revenues, but I want to see some meaningful stuff on spending and the debt ... I don't think I can go home and look my ...

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  1. Good, somebody needs to take out the trash!!

    Go over the cliff. Congress, all of them, engineered this mess. Let them reap what they sow.

    It might hurt but do the math. Every true and viable solution will hurt. Snake oil salesman Obama can't have unequal taxation without meaningful cuts.

    Two fools met one day. Obama and Reid. If they had actually worked as hard at any deal as they have running their mouths off this might actually have been averted

  2. Boehner specifically said it's up to the Senate to do something as his House coud not. Well, they did. If Boehner was just blowing smoke, he shoud have just shut his mouth. Can't have it both ways Johnny boy. If you wanted your Senate colleagues to pass something...they did. Now it's your job to finish the deal.

    The more I see and hear Boehner he's just got no backbone and no pull to get something done.

  3. TomD, I agree except, the whole lot is spineless, not just Boehner. The deal from the Senate had to be garbage because Reid approved it with Biden carrying the water.

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