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NEW POLL OVERVIEW:<br />
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Congress has averted the Fiscal Cliff at least temporarily. <br />
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The deal will:<br />
1. Extend tax cuts for individuals making less than $400,000 and couples making less than $450,000.<br />
2. raise the top rate on estate taxes and capital gains. <br />
3. Extend unemployment benefits for one year.<br />
4. Block a 27 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors. <br />
5. Delay for two months the across-the-board spending cuts known as the &quot;sequester.</span><span style="font-size: larger;">&quot;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: larger;">6. Will add roughly $4 trillion to the deficit.<br />
7. The bill has $15 billion in spending cuts while increasing tax revenues by $620 billion&mdash;a 41:1 ratio of tax increases to spending cuts.<br />
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Five of Michigan's GOP congressmen VOTED FOR it including:<br />
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Dan Benishek<br />
Dave Camp<br />
Candice Miller<br />
Mike Rogers<br />
Fred Upton<br />
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Three of Michigan</span><span style="font-size: larger;">'</span><span style="font-size: larger;">s GOP congressmen VOTED AGAINST passage of the bil including:<br />
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Justin Amash<br />
Bill Huizenga<br />
Tim Walberg<br />
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Speaker John Boehner and Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan also VOTED FOR the bill.<br />
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NEW POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Is the </span><span style="font-size: larger;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: larger;">Fiscal Cliff</span><span style="font-size: larger;">&quot;</span><span style="font-size: larger;"> deal a deal you would have agreed to and is it time for a new Speaker of the House?<br />
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Yes - Speaker Boehner should remain as Speaker of the House<br />
Yes - But we need a new Speaker of the House<br />
No - Speaker Boehner needs to be replaced<br />
No - Speaker Boehner should remain as Speaker of the House<br />
Undecided<br />
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PREVIOUS POLL QUESTION:<br />
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If congress and the president cause the U.S. to go over the fiscal cliff whose fault will it be?<br />
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48% - President Obama&rsquo;s fault<br />
0% - The Senate&rsquo;s democrat&rsquo;s fault (Reid &amp; McConnell)<br />
0% - The House Republican&rsquo;s fault (Speaker Boehner)<br />
15% - The House Tea Party Republican&rsquo;s fault<br />
37% - All of their faults<br />
0% - Undecided<br />
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