DEAL OR NO DEAL? Fiscal Cliff Talks Appear To Be Stalled - Spokane, North Idaho News & Weather KHQ.com

DEAL OR NO DEAL? Fiscal Cliff Talks Appear To Be Stalled

Posted: Updated:

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says a bipartisan deal to avert a "fiscal cliff" is more likely if Democrats and Republicans don't try to over-reach on spending cuts.
    
The California Democrat tells "CBS This Morning" that Congress and the White House need to agree on a provisional plan for taxes and spending.
    
She says "Let's do something now." Pelosi adds the two sides should come together on a "down payment" on cuts to entitlement programs.
    
Pelosi says Democrats want to ensure that senior citizens aren't harmed. And she says Republicans are pushing too hard on a Medicare overhaul, asking, quote, "is it just a trophy that the Republicans want to take home?"
    
She says, "Get it done and make corrections and expansions on it next year."
 

  • Most Popular StoriesMost Popular Stories

  • Friday, May 24 2013 4:52 PM EDT2013-05-24 20:52:07 GMT
    KHQ.COM - A driver said he thought he was about to die when an Interstate 5 bridge span collapsed in Washington state, plunging his pickup and another car into the Skagit River below.
    KHQ.COM - A driver said he thought he was about to die when an Interstate 5 bridge span collapsed in Washington state, plunging his pickup and another car into the Skagit River below. Dan Sligh, his wife and another motorist found themselves waist-deep in water when the freeway crumbled moments after the bridge was clipped by an oversized truck.

  • Friday, May 24 2013 12:20 PM EDT2013-05-24 16:20:24 GMT
    MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) - The wife of a Canadian trucker whose rig caused the collapse of a Washington bridge says a special vehicle called a pole car had traveled the route to make sure the load would fit.
    MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) - The wife of a Canadian trucker whose rig caused the collapse of a Washington bridge says a special vehicle called a pole car had traveled the route to make sure the load would fit.

  • Thursday, May 23 2013 5:12 PM EDT2013-05-23 21:12:15 GMT
    AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. - On Thursday dozens of people lined the streets in Airway Heights to pay their respects to two fallen Fairchild Airmen.
    AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. - On Thursday dozens of people lined the streets in Airway Heights to pay their respects to Capt. Victoria Pinckney and Tech. Sgt. Herman "Tre" Mackey III as their bodies were transported to Spokane ahead of Tuesday's public memorial.