Obama signs bill to avoid ‘fiscal cliff’
(MCT) — HONOLULU — Passing legislation to avoid the “fiscal cliff” — and undo income tax increases for most Americans — was hardly automatic. But signing the bill was.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday authorized the use of the “autopen” to enact H.R. 8, the compromise bill approved by lawmakers in the 11th hour after a long stalemate to avert the set of tax increases and budget cuts known as the fiscal cliff.
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