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Max Baucus: If the other side is completely intransigent that the president has probably no choice but to say OK, we're going to go…

On the recordNovember 29, 2012
If the other side is completely intransigent that the president has probably no choice but to say OK, we're going to go over the cliff. That would not be my first preference.
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Max Baucus
Democratic · Montana

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Senator Max Baucus discusses the possibility of going over the fiscal cliff due to Republican intransigence.

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