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  1. Washington’s spending problem threatens our future, and President Obama’s fiscal cliff plan doesn’t even begin to solve it.
    Photo: Washington’s spending problem threatens our future, and President Obama’s fiscal cliff plan doesn’t even begin to solve it.
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  3. Speaker Boehner: "Now it’s clear the president’s just not serious about cutting spending. But spending is the problem. How big a problem? Look at this chart put together by Paul Ryan and the Budget Committee. ... if the president got everyt...
    hing he wanted – over $1.4 trillion in taxes – this is what that would represent. But if you look at the spending problem, you see it does nothing – nothing to solve the spending problem that our country has."
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  4. In the debate over avoiding the “fiscal cliff,” an important point has been forgotten: when it comes to solving our debt, government spending is the problem that must be addressed. http://www.speaker.gov/general/spendingistheproblem-chasing-higher-spending-higher-taxes-won-t-solve-our-debt
    Photo: In the debate over avoiding the “fiscal cliff,” an important point has been forgotten: when it comes to solving our debt, government spending is the problem that must be addressed. http://www.speaker.gov/general/spendingistheproblem-chasing-higher-spending-higher-taxes-won-t-solve-our-debt
  5. Speaker Boehner: “As of today, the president’s plan to avert the fiscal cliff still does not meet the two standards that I laid out the day after the election. His plan does not fulfill his promise to bring a balanced approach to solving th...
    is problem. It’s mainly tax hikes. And his plan does not begin to solve our debt crisis. It actually increases spending.

    “Our plan meets these standards. It cuts spending, and paves the way for real job growth in our country.

    “In the five weeks since we signaled our willingness to forge an agreement with the president, he’s never put forth a plan that meets these standards. And frankly, that’s why we don't have an agreement today.

    “You know, the longer the White House slow-walks this discussion, the closer our economy gets to the fiscal cliff – and the more American jobs are placed in jeopardy.”

    http://www.speaker.gov/video/speaker-boehner-president-s-plan-not-balanced-does-not-begin-solve-debt-crisis
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  6. "Washington has a spending problem. Let’s be honest - we’re broke. ... where are the president’s spending cuts?" - Speaker Boehner http://www.speaker.gov/speech/speaker-boehner-where-are-president-s-spending-cuts
  7. While President Obama is demanding tax rate hikes on small businesses, former Clinton White House Chief of Staff and Democrat Erskine Bowles told CBS Face the Nation, "We have to cut spending." ... "Even if you raise the top rates back to t...
    he Clinton rates, that only creates about $400 billion over 10 years. That's $40 billion a year. We have a trillion dollar a year deficit," said Bowles. And the spending cuts offered by the president - which are dwarfed by the new 'stimulus' spending he proposes - are "not enough. We're going to have to do more." http://www.speaker.gov/video/bowles-we-have-cut-spending
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  8. "When it comes to the fiscal cliff that is threatening our economy and threatening jobs, the White House has wasted another week. ... Instead of reforming the tax code and cutting spending, the president wants to raise tax rates. But even ...
    if the president got the tax rate hike that he wanted, understand that we would continue to see trillion dollar deficits for as far as the eye can see. Listen, Washington’s got a spending problem, not a revenue problem.” http://www.speaker.gov/video/speaker-boehner-white-house-has-wasted-another-week-slow-walking-economy-edge-fiscal-cliff
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  9. Speaker Boehner: "This week we made a good-faith offer to avert the fiscal crisis and that offer included significant spending cuts and reforms, and it included additional revenue. And frankly it was the balanced approach that the president’s been asking for. Now we need a response from the White House." http://www.speaker.gov/video/president-obama-obligated-offer-plan-can-pass-both-houses-congress
  10. In a letter sent to President Obama today, House Republican leaders made a new offer to avert the fiscal cliff centered around a middle ground approach first presented to Congress by President Clinton’s former White House chief of staff, Er...
    skine Bowles. The Bowles plan, presented in 2011 to the Joint Select Commitee on Deficit Reduction, is consistent with the framework House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) proposed the day after the election: a balanced approach of significant spending cuts and new revenues from tax reform with fewer loopholes and lower tax rates. This is another attempt to jumpstart substantive, good faith negotiations toward a bipartisan solution that can be enacted soon, a stark contrast to the unserious proposal the White House put forward last week. http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/house-gop-leaders-make-new-offer-avert-fiscal-cliff
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  11. Speaker Boehner delivered the following response to President Obama today, urging the administration to work with Republicans on a balanced approach to resolving the fiscal cliff that includes serious spending cuts and pro-growth tax reforms needed to address the debt and create new jobs. http://www.speaker.gov/video/speaker-boehner-responds-president-obama-s-unserious-fiscal-cliff-proposal
  12. Just 15 miles down the road from the president's rally today is a small business that can’t afford to pay the higher tax rates he demands. Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) office sat down with Jerry Gorski of Gorski Engineering, who sa...
    id, “our company has figured out how to survive in this economy and the first thing we want to do with any income I have is tax it? That’s uncertainty.” Watch it here: http://www.speaker.gov/video/small-business-america
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  13. Three weeks after Republicans outlined a balanced, popular framework for averting the fiscal cliff by cutting spending and reforming our tax code, the White House finally made its offer: a spectacularly unserious grab bag of tax rate hikes,...
    ‘stimulus’-style spending, and other Democratic pipe dreams. But don’t take our word for it. Here’s what people are saying about the White House proposal: http://www.speaker.gov/general/white-house-not-serious-all-about-averting-fiscal-cliff
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  14. Speaker Boehner: "The president has warned about the dangers of going over the fiscal cliff, but his actions have not matched his public statements. Members of his own party seem quite comfortable with sending the economy over the fiscal c...
    liff. ... [D]espite claims that the president supports a ‘balanced’ approach, the Democrats have yet to get serious about real spending cuts." http://www.speaker.gov/video/speaker-boehner-it-s-not-balanced-approach-without-spending-cuts
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  15. Speaker Boehner and Republican leaders today met with former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and the “Fix the Debt” coalition of business leaders to discuss a balanced framework for averting the fiscal cliff and solving our debt crisis. http://www.speaker.gov/photo/speaker-boehner-gop-leaders-meet-erskine-bowles-fix-debt-coalition
    Photo: Speaker Boehner and Republican leaders today met with former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and the “Fix the Debt” coalition of business leaders to discuss a balanced framework for averting the fiscal cliff and solving our debt crisis. http://www.speaker.gov/photo/speaker-boehner-gop-leaders-meet-erskine-bowles-fix-debt-coalition
  16. Speaker Boehner: "We all know that we’ve had this spending crisis coming at us like a freight train and it has to be dealt with. And in order to try to come to an agreement Republicans are willing to put revenue on the table, but it’s time for the president and Democrats to get serious about the spending problem that our country has." http://www.speaker.gov/video/speaker-boehner-where-are-democrats-spending-cuts
  17. A majority of the American people in a new survey supports the Republican approach to avoiding the fiscal cliff – reforming the tax code by eliminating special interest loopholes and cutting spending – over the Democratic plan to raise tax rates and hurt our economy.
  18. President Obama has called for a “balanced” approach to avoiding the fiscal cliff – one that combines revenue (demanded by Democrats) with spending cuts and reforms (demanded by Republicans). In an effort to find common ground, Republicans...
    have outlined a plan that meets the president’s test without hurting our economy or destroying jobs – now we need Democrats to do the same.

    Republicans have offered to accept new revenue if it comes from tax reform (not tax rate hikes) and is accompanied by real spending cuts and entitlement reforms. Reforming our tax code will help grow our economy – and a stronger economy means more jobs and more of the revenue Democrats want (without hurting small businesses).

    But now that Republicans have put new revenue on the table, the question is: what spending cuts are the president and congressional Democrats willing to make?

    “A ‘balanced’ approach isn’t balanced if it means we increase the amount of money coming into the coffers of government, but we don’t cut spending and address entitlements at the same time,” said Speaker Boehner. “We’re asking [President Obama] to make good on his ‘balanced’ approach” – and to tell the American people what spending cuts he’s willing to make.
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