US Senate overwhelmingly approves fiscal cliff deal – video

From The Guardian:

Coming together in the early hours of 2013, the US Senate overwhelmingly passed a last-gasp bill to avert huge tax increases and draconian spending cuts making up the so-called fiscal cliff. The bill was overwhelmingly approved in the Senate in an 89-8 vote. The measure, which promises to raise taxes on the rich and stop taxes going up for more than 100 million families, now moves to the House of Representatives

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