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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, leaves the White House in Washington on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, after a closed-door meeting between President Obama and congressional leaders to negotiate the framework for a deal on the "fiscal cliff." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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President Obama pauses during a statement on the "fiscal cliff" negotiations with congressional leaders at the White House on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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President Obama delivers a statement on the "fiscal cliff" negotiations with congressional leaders in the briefing room of the White House on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, in Washington. The negotiations are a last-ditch effort to avoid across-the-board first-of-the-year tax increases and deep spending cuts. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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** FILE ** Then-Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks to journalists as he arrives for the weekly Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

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Pakistani police officers collect evidence from the site of a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. A suicide bomber driving a pickup truck packed with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims in the country's southwest, killing 19 people, a government official and eyewitnesses said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

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** FILE ** In this Sept. 21, 2006, file photo, former President George H.W. Bush delivers the keynote speech before receiving an honorary Doctor of Public Administration degree at Suffolk University in Boston. A spokesman says the former president's condition continues to improve and that he was moved Saturday out of intensive care and into a regular hospital room. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, Pool, File)

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**FILE** President Obama pauses during a statement on the fiscal cliff negotiations with congressional leaders in the briefing room of the White House on Dec. 28, 2012. (Associated Press)