Dec. 30, 2012
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is swarmed by reporters as he enters his office before a rare Sunday Senate session to consider a possible deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff.” In January, a package of painful tax increases and spending cuts are set to kick in. Even if a deal is struck, it will have to be passed by the Democrat-controlled Senate, then the GOP-held House.
Melina Mara / The Washington Post
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Dec. 30, 2012
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) began direct talks with Vice President Biden on Sunday. Republicans exiting a mid-afternoon caucus meeting said McConnell, viewed as one of Washington’s unofficial closers, had excused himself to take a call from the vice president.
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Dec. 30, 2012
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), right, works with staff before rushing back onto the Senate floor for a vote. As afternoon edged into evening, there was a good deal of pessimism on Capitol Hill.
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Dec. 30, 2012
Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), right, and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) head to the Senate floor for a vote. Previously, it had been assumed that the more difficult task would be gathering Republican votes on a fiscal cliff deal. But Sunday, it appeared that Democrats were the ones standing in the way — they had been unable to produce a counteroffer to a GOP proposal.
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Dec. 30, 2012
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), left, works with a staff member near the Senate floor between votes during the rare Sunday session.
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Dec. 30, 2012
The Senate’s Ohio Clock corridor is filled with lawmakers, their staff and members of press as Congress scrambles to reach a fiscal cliff deal.
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