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Senate Votes Us Back From the Edge of the Cliff

WASHINGTON, DC-By a vote of 89 to 8 the US Senate passed legislation saving the economy from the fiscal cliff. A House vote is expected Tuesday or Wednesday.

By John Salustri | Updated on January 01, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC-Technically we entered the new year in a fiscal cliff free fall. But early Tuesday morning, hours after the mdinight deadline, the US Senate passed measures that would divert that economic disaster. And while the timing was a cliffhanger, the 89-to-8 Senate vote was certainly anything but.

Now it is up to the House to drive the hard-fought economic measures into law. That vote is expected to come either New Year’s day or Wednesday. Apparently the upshot of the weeks of wrangling that preceeded the vote ended with no political side getting everything it wanted.

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