The Senate deal permanently raises income taxes for individuals making more than $400,000 a year. It delays -- for just two months -- most of those automatic spending cuts that were set to kick in. And it includes a number of other provisions to stave off the most pressing aspects of the fiscal cliff.

Richard Crowe, an unemployed former steelworker living in Ohio, talks about what it's been like searching for a job and what he would do when unemployment benefits expire tomorrow.

'Bridges to Nowhere' and other pork-barrel spending used to be the grease for deal-making in Congress.

All eyes on are on Washington as the deadline to the fiscal cliff is just hours away.