Senate leaders hope to come up with a solution to the fiscal cliff
crisis in the next 24 hours, after holding a “productive” meeting
with President Barack Obama late Friday. Lawmakers spent about an
hour at the White House and left with renewed optimism, the first
apparent progress in talks in more than a month. Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell, R–Kentucky, and Majority Leader Harry Reid,
D–Nevada, now hope to come up with a compromise by Sunday, when the
Senate is scheduled
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