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From the Vault: Deficit Deal Stalemate
Newly re-elected, President Obama has to find a way to get a divided Congress to reach an agreement to prevent a fiscal crisis or risk pushing the country into recession. We look in the vault to November 2011 when the the supercommittee failed to reach a budget deal affecting national politics and the economy.
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