{"id":36561,"date":"2013-01-02T17:22:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T17:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_the_house_approves_the_fiscal_cliff_stop-gap_measure_passed\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T17:22:42","slug":"washington_post_the_house_approves_the_fiscal_cliff_stop-gap_measure_passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36561","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) The House approves the \u201d\u02dcfiscal cliff\u2019 stop-gap measure passed by the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress approved a plan to end Washington\u2019s long drama over the \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d\u009d late Tuesday after House Republicans surrendered to President Obama\u2019s demand to let taxes rise on the nation\u2019s richest households.<\/p>\n<p>The House voted 257 to 167 to send the measure to Obama for his signature; the vote came less than 24 hours after the Senate overwhelmingly approved the legislation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/house-members-meet-to-review-senate-passed-cliff-deal\/2013\/01\/01\/6e4373cc-5435-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/go.bloomberg.com\/multimedia\/the-balance-of-power-for-the-113th-congress\">new numbers<\/a> for 2013 in Congress&#8211;Democrats  control of the Senate by 55 to 45 (change of 2) and Republicans control of the House of Representatives by 234-201 (change of 8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress approved a plan to end Washington\u2019s long drama over the \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d\u009d late Tuesday after House Republicans surrendered to President Obama\u2019s demand to let taxes rise on the nation\u2019s richest households. The House voted 257 to 167 to send<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36561\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,670,582,589,149,168,617,675,616,593,151,667,618,673,587,669,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-house-of-representatives","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-social-security","category-taxes","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}