Business_Finance

GEITHNER_20121129_038_11291518.jpg

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner (left) enters the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, to meet with House and Senate leaders to discuss the looming "fiscal cliff." (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

CLIFF_6706_20121129

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner enters the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, on his way to a meeting with House and Senate leaders to discuss the looming "fiscal cliff." (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

CLIFF_6705_20121129

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks to reporters in the House Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, about the looming financial crisis. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

CLIFF_6704_20121129

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks to reporters in the House Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, about the looming financial crisis. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

CLIFF_6703_20121129

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks to reporters in the House Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, about the looming financial crisis. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

CLIFF_6702_20121129

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks to reporters in the House Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, about the looming financial crisis. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

CLIFF_6701_20121129

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks to reporters about the looming financial crisis on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, at the House Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

CLIFF_6697_20121129

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (center), flanked by Sen. Charles E. Schumer (left) and Sen. Patty Murray, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, following a meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. "We're still waiting for a serious offer from Republicans," Mr. Reid said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

CLIFF_6696_20121129

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (center), Nevada Democrat, followed by Sen. Richard J. Durbin (left), Illinois Democrat, arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, following a meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

CLIFF_6695_20121129

White House press secretary Jay Carney holds up a copy of the President's Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, as President Obama was having a private lunch with former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

BOEHNER_20121129_007.jpg

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks about the looming financial crisis to reporters at the House Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

CONGRESS.jpg

** FILE ** Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks about the elections and the unfinished business of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

CLIFF_WEB_20121129_0002

Former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, is pursued by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, following a closed-door meeting with House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Geithner.jpg

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner enters the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. Mr. Geithner is meeting with House and Senate leaders to discuss the looming "fiscal cliff." (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

20121128-223808-pic-882031549.jpg

Micah Moore, 23, is shown being escorted into the Jackson County Courthouse Annex in Independence, Mo., earlier this month. His attorney has withdrawn his confession to killing Bethany Ann Deaton. A preliminary hearing planned for Wednesday was put off and the case will go to a grand jury. (The Kansas City Star via Associated Press)