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Boehner still pitching firm cuts for tax rise

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS

Posted: December 14, 2012 at 3 a.m.

J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE
Credit: AP
House Speaker John Boehner uses a chart during a news conference Thursday in Washington to emphasize his point that government spending complicates the negotiations on avoiding the “fiscal cliff.”

President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met for 50 minutes Thursday at the White House on the budget stalemate.

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