House Speaker will work with Obama to avoid fiscal cliff
John Boehner, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, has said Washington should find a short-term solution to avoid the fiscal cliff and then work on a substantive debt reduction plan in 2013.
The White House and lawmakers have less than two months to deal with the fiscal cliff or $600 billion worth of spending cuts and tax increases due to go into effect at the end of the year.
– John BoehnerWe won't solve the problem of our fiscal imbalance overnight ... What we can do is avert the cliff in a manner that serves as a down payment on - and a catalyst for - major solutions, enacted in 2013, that begin to solve the problem.
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