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House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, at Capitol Hill on Saturday, continues "fiscal cliff" negotiations as Republicans appeared to hold firm to their refusal to halt automatic spending cuts. -
Reporters follow Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who will be negotiating with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. -
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, center, heads for his Capitol Hill office Friday. He said he was "hopeful and optimistic" of a deal on the "fiscal cliff." -
President Barack Obama said he is optimistic about fiscal cliff negotiations during a news conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 28, 2012. The remarks to the media followed a meeting with Congressional Republican leaders at the White House to discuss the looming tax hikes and spending cuts of the approaching fiscal cliff. -
President Barack Obama said he is optimistic about fiscal cliff negotiations during a news conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 28, 2012. The remarks to the media followed a meeting with Congressional Republican leaders at the White House to discuss the looming tax hikes and spending cuts of the approaching fiscal cliff. -
President Barack Obama said he is optimistic about fiscal cliff negotiations during a news conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, December 28, 2012. -
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. waits for her car as she leaves a meeting at the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, after a closed-door meeting between President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders to negotiate the framework for a deal on the fiscal cliff. The end game at hand, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders made a final stab at compromise Friday to prevent a toxic blend of middle-class tax increases and spending cuts from taking effect at the turn of the new year. -
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. leaves the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, after a closed-door meeting between President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders to negotiate the framework for a deal on the fiscal cliff. -
Reporters and photographers try to get a glimpse of Congressional leaders as they arrive at the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, for a closed-door meeting with President Barack Obama regarding the fiscal cliff. -
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. talks about the fiscal cliff with reporters, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. -
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. listens at right as Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. gestures as he speaks during a news conference on the fiscal cliff, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. -
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio arrives at the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, for a meeting between President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders to negotiate the framework for a deal on the fiscal cliff. The negotiations are a last ditch effort to avoid across-the-board first of the year tax increases and deep spending cuts. -
President Barack Obama walks down the the lower steps instead of the usual longer stairway from Air Force One upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. The president cut short his holiday and returned to Washington as no deal appeared in sight to avoid the year-end "fiscal cliff" of higher taxes and deep spending cuts that could spin the still-fragile back into a recession. The treasury secretary warned that the government would hit its borrowing limit on Monday, the final day of the year.
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