John Boehner, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, talks about the combination of tax hikes and sweeping spending cuts, dubbed as the "fiscal cliff", on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the Untied States, Nov. 7, 2012. Democrats and Republicans should work together to increase revenue and curb the government's spending on social benefit programs to improve U.S. fiscal sustainability, Boehner said here Wednesday. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)

John Boehner, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, talks about the combination of tax hikes and sweeping spending cuts, dubbed as the "fiscal cliff", on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the Untied States, Nov. 7, 2012. Democrats and Republicans should work together to increase revenue and curb the government's spending on social benefit programs to improve U.S. fiscal sustainability, Boehner said here Wednesday. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)

John Boehner, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, talks about the combination of tax hikes and sweeping spending cuts, dubbed as the "fiscal cliff", on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the Untied States, Nov. 7, 2012. Democrats and Republicans should work together to increase revenue and curb the government's spending on social benefit programs to improve U.S. fiscal sustainability, Boehner said here Wednesday. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)

John Boehner, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, talks about the combination of tax hikes and sweeping spending cuts, dubbed as the "fiscal cliff", on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the Untied States, Nov. 7, 2012. Democrats and Republicans should work together to increase revenue and curb the government's spending on social benefit programs to improve U.S. fiscal sustainability, Boehner said here Wednesday. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)

John Boehner, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, talks about the combination of tax hikes and sweeping spending cuts, dubbed as the "fiscal cliff", on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the Untied States, Nov. 7, 2012. Democrats and Republicans should work together to increase revenue and curb the government's spending on social benefit programs to improve U.S. fiscal sustainability, Boehner said here Wednesday. (Xinhua/Fang Zhe)