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Rep. Cleaver On 'Plan B' And The Fiscal Cliff

The U.S. House of Representatives is likely to vote Thursday on a proposal advanced by Speaker John Boehner to avoid the "fiscal cliff."

Boehner has dubbed his proposal 'Plan B,' and touts it as a fallback to talks going on between him and the President. Emanuel Cleaver, who represents Missouri’s Fifth District isn’t buying it.  But, as he told KCUR’s Frank Morris, he doesn’t like President Obama’s solution either.

I’ve been at KCUR almost 30 years, working partly for NPR and splitting my time between local and national reporting. I work to bring extra attention to people in the Midwest, my home state of Kansas and of course Kansas City. What I love about this job is having a license to talk to interesting people and then crafting radio stories around their voices. It’s a big responsibility to uphold the truth of those stories while condensing them for lots of other people listening to the radio, and I take it seriously. Email me at frank@kcur.org or find me on Twitter @FrankNewsman.
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