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Supercommittee fails to reach deal
Nov 21, 2011, 21:59 GMT
Washington - A US congressional committee that has been working for weeks to hammer out a deficit reduction deal announced Monday that it had failed to come to an agreement.
'After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committee's deadline,' the co-chairs of the committee said in a statement.
The panel of six Democrats from President Barack Obama's party and six opposition Republicans has been in private negotiations for weeks ahead of a Wednesday deadline to make 1.2 trillion dollars in cuts.
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