Cliff avoided: Congress staves off tax hikes
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US Senator Charles Schumer uses a mobile phone outside a meeting of the Democrat Caucus on the progress on the impending fiscal cliff in the US Senate at Capitol Hill in Washington late on December 31, 2012. Coming together in the early hours of 2013, the US Senate overwhelmingly passed a last-gasp bill on January 1, 2013 to avert huge tax increases and draconian spending cuts making up the so-called 'fiscal cliff.' AFP PHOTO/Paul J. Richards
