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2016 Postmortem

DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sun Dec 30, 2012, 07:21 PM Dec 2012

GOP Drops Social Security Cut Demand In Fiscal Cliff Negotiations

BRIAN BEUTLER 5:33 PM EST, SUNDAY DECEMBER 30, 2012

Just hours after GOP efforts to include a Social Security benefit cut in a last minute deal to avoid the fiscal cliff ground negotiations to a halt, Republicans backtracked.

After a Republican conference meeting in the Capitol on Sunday evening, numerous senators emerged to announce that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would retract his request to include the so-called "chained CPI" measure in any short-term budget deal.

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