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What we're reading: Thursday, December 20, 2012

The buzz-word surrounding fiscal cliff negotiations is "stalemate," with Speaker Boehner expected to put the House Republicans’ Plan B on the floor for a
Speaker of the House John Boehner talks with reporters after the weekly House GOP caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Speaker of the House John Boehner talks with reporters after the weekly House GOP caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

The buzz-word surrounding fiscal cliff negotiations is "stalemate," with Speaker Boehner expected to put the House Republicans’ Plan B on the floor for a vote Thursday. The Speaker will take questions from Capitol Hill in the afternoon.

The tragedy at Sandy Hook elementary is dominating the opinion pages: Today New York Sen. Chuck Schumer writes about the search for common ground on guns laws in the Washington Post, while the Wall Street Journal’s Daniel Henninger looks back at the 1993 shooting death of David Gunn and the need for leadership after Newtown in his Wonder Land column.

The Obama administration is still keeping quiet on the cabinet front, but Politico is taking a look at the possibility of another Kennedy joining the Senate if John Kerry is the choice to replace Secretary Clinton.