Group of Eight Senators Meets to Work on Deficit-Cut Plan
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A bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators is meeting this week to seek a way to avert a year-end “fiscal cliff” of expiring tax rates and automatic spending cuts.
The group will hold three days of meetings starting today at Mount Vernon in Virginia. Two Senate aides close to the group said the lawmakers will seek to identify broad areas of agreement on taxes and entitlement programs, without discussion of specific numbers or targets.