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School Shooting May Be Pushing Fiscal Cliff Talks Forward

There is a new issue hovering over the "fiscal cliff" talks: The Connecticut school shooting.

The fallout from the massacre of 20 elementary school children and seven adults in Newtown, Conn. -- and the calls for a government response to the issue of gun violence -- may well be pushing both sides to reach a new debt reduction agreement and get the issue behind them.

Source: USA Today. Read full article. (link)

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