WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - Top U.S. Republican John Boehner said on Wednesday that
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."We won't solve the problem of our fiscal imbalance overnight," Boehner said after President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House and Republicans won enough seats to maintain control in the House.
Acknowledging Obama's
re-election victory, Boehner said House Republicans were willing to work
with the White House and said they would accept new revenue under the
right conditions.
"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," Boehner said in prepared remarks.
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