Thursday, December 6, 2012

Obama, Boehner talk; Geithner prepared to go off "cliff"

Obama, Boehner talk; Geithner prepared to go off "cliff"

U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner gestures as he is interviewed in Washington for "Face the Nation"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress and President Barack Obama consumed much of Wednesday talking up their positions on the "fiscal cliff" and though Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner spoke by phone, neither side offered any new compromises in public. Nor was the phone call, a rarity, followed by any immediate announcement of a face-to-face meeting that has been widely anticipated all week and was explicitly requested early in the day by House of Representatives Republican leader Eric Cantor. ...



Source: news.yahoo.com

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