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Disputes continue hours before 'fiscal cliff' deadline
Posted: 12.31.2012 at 7:23 AM
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., walks to a closed-door meeting with fellow Democrats, Dec. 30, 2012.  / AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
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The White House and Senate Republicans sorted through stubborn disputes over taxing the wealthy and cutting the budget to pay for Democratic spending proposals as Monday's midnight deadline for an accord avoiding the "fiscal cliff" drew to within hours.

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