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30 Days to the fiscal cliff

Lynn Sweet By Lynn Sweet
   
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Fiscal Cliff Notes for Dec. 1, 2012

30 days to the fiscal cliff

Lynn Sweet post on the day ahead in the looming fiscal cliff battles is at the Sun-Times politics blog HERE.

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