Fiscal Cliff Talks Making Steady Progress
Posted at 12:45 p.m. on Dec. 11, 2012
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and their staffs are making steady progress in negotiations to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” the Wall Street Journal reports, as “both sides of the talks maintained a strict public moratorium on commenting on the talks.”
“One Republican said that in Congress, as in union negotiations, the most progress is made at the bargaining table when the parties are not speaking at the microphones.”