With the U.S. fiscal cliff matter now at least temporarily out of the market place spotlight, focus has turned to other issues.

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Once this has taken place, the matter is taken out of the hands of the lower house and goes to the upper house, the Senate.

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But no matter where it was ultimately headed, the act of heroism that took place on that aircraft stands out as one of the most amazing feats of heroism in our country's long history of heroes.

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