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Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Tuesday that there is probably a zero percent chance of congressional leaders reaching a grand bargain on the looming fiscal cliff.

Asked on Bloomberg Televistion whether he thinks theres a chance for grand bargain, the former GOP presidential candidate said: Probably zero.

Paul said Congress can delay fiscal decisions in January.

They can postpone big decisions in January and yet that still does not remove the uncertainty, Paul said. Uncertainty is a major cause of the inability for the market to get moving again and they have to revamp it in a much more detailed fashion than they are even talking about right now.

Paul said that any deal that Congress and President Barack Obama agree on will be very temporary.

I think there will be something, but it will be very temporary, it wont be long lasting and restore confidence and fix the problem, Paul said. But there will be some type of reconciliation of saying well do this and a little of that and it may even help the financial markets for a little while, but since it wont solve the problems it will only be temporary.

Last week, Paul told Bloomberg Television that the country had already fallen off the fiscal cliff.

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Ron Paul : Big deal won't get done

Fast Eddy Aki'a of Hawaii smokes a joint as thousands of supporters of legalized pot, lit up at 4:20 p.m. on April 20 in Denver, Colorado.

Fast Eddy Aki'a of Hawaii smokes a joint as thousands of supporters of legalized pot, lit up at 4:20 p.m. on April 20 in Denver, Colorado.

Reps. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.) are asking the White House to respect the voters of Colorado and Washington, who decided that recreational marijuana use should be legal.

In a letter sent to President Obama, they wrote:

"We have sponsored legislation at the federal level to remove criminal penalties for the use of marijuana because of our belief in individual freedom. We recognize that this has not yet become national policy, but we believe there are many strong reasons for your administration to allow the states of Colorado and Washington to set the policies they believe appropriate in this regard, without the federal government overriding the choices made by the voters of these states.

"Respect for the rights of states to set policies on those matters that primarily affect their own residents argues for federal noninterference in this case, as does respect for the wishes of the voters again, on matters that primarily affect those in the relevant electorate. Additionally, we believe that scarce federal resources law enforcement, prosecutorial, judicial, and penal should not be expended in opposition to the wishes of the voters of Colorado and Washington, given the responsibility of all federal officials to find ways to withhold unwise or unnecessary expenditures."

The Hill reports that the Obama administration has received criticism for going after medical marijuana dispensaries in California and Colorado, where they are legal.

In an interview with Rolling Stone Obama said he can't simply ignore federal law when it comes to pot.

"What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana," he told the magazine. "I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana and the reason is, because it's against federal law. I can't nullify congressional law.

"I can't ask the Justice Department to say, 'Ignore completely a federal law that's on the books. What I can say is, 'Use your prosecutorial discretion and properly prioritize your resources to go after things that are really doing folks damage. As a consequence there haven't been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes."

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Reps. Ron Paul , Barney Frank Ask Obama To Respect Pot Legalization Laws