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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

Then there's reconciliation , a process included in a 1974 budget law with a very narrow purpose in mind that was soon exploited by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long to get tax and spending legislation passed without a 60-vote Senate supermajority. In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years.