It was in the early afternoon on a frigid New Year’s day on Capitol Hill when Eric Cantor rose to his feet to tell his fellow Republicans that he could not support a Senate-brokered compromise to avert the fiscal cliff.
Later, Mr Cantor would confide he felt on safe ground, as he thought John Boehner, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and the only person in the room outranking him, was opposed to the bill as well.
If the House had sent the bill back to the upper chamber, the US could have gone over the fiscal cliff, its deep spending cuts and tax rises placing the economy at risk of entering a new recession.
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