Why President Obama took the fiscal cliff deal

ANALYSIS - Some liberals were disappointed with the agreement President Obama accepted to avoid the fiscal cliff, which included dropping his pledge to raise taxes on all income above $250,000 and not including a provision to raise the debt ceiling...

House passes bill to stave off 'fiscal cliff'

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The bill's passage on a 257-167 vote late Tuesday night in the House of Representatives sealed a hard-won political triumph for the president less than two months after he secured re-election...

'Cliff' bill to House, but doubts on spending cuts

Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate-approved compromise to avert the 'fiscal cliff' ran headlong into opposition from the No. 2 House Republican and other GOP lawmakers Tuesday...

Deal to avert fiscal cliff appears within reach

NBC News

NBC NEWS - An agreement in principle to avert broad tax increases and spending cuts appeared imminent Monday night...

White House, congressional GOP near cliff deal

theGrio

theGRIO REPORT - Urged by many liberals to go over the so-called fiscal cliff and force Republicans to accept whatever deal he offers, while centrists and Republicans say he must lead Washington to a compromise, President Obama is instead pursuing both options...

White House meeting a last stab at a fiscal deal

Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional leaders have arrived at the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama in an eleventh-hour effort to avert a fiscal cliff...

On 'fiscal cliff,' no deal in sight

Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are engaged in a playground game of "who goes first," daring each political party to let the year end without resolving a Jan. 1 confluence of higher taxes and deep spending cuts that could rattle a recovering, but-still-fragile economy.

Obama to fly home early as 'fiscal cliff' looms

Matthew Daly, Associated Press

HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama was cutting short his traditional Christmas holiday in Hawaii, planning to leave for Washington on Wednesday evening as a year-end deadline loomed before the U.S. economy goes over the so-called 'fiscal cliff'...

Why Newark Dems are disappointed in Booker

Vivian Glover

theGRIO REPORT - Yesterday’s announcement changed all that and left a lot of local Democrats and Booker supporters disappointed as well as unsure about the mayor’s strategy for respectfully easing out the revered, proactive and very independent member of the Senate...

Roland Burris hopes Tim Scott will focus on issues 'pertinent' to blacks

Renita D. Young

theGRIO REPORT - Burris lists the top three issues in the black community as disparity in health care, disparity in employment and disparity in education...