Tom Price

House Budget Committee Vice Chairman Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. gestures as he speaks about sequestration, the fiscal cliff and the budget, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, at the National Press Club in Washington.

• 6:22 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, 2013

APTOPIX New Years Celebrations

YEAH YEAH, HAPPY NEW YEAR---A worker clears confetti from a sidewalk in Times Square after midnight on New Years Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013, in New York. With fireworks, concerts and celebrations from Hong Kong to New York, revelers welcome 2013 with hope for a better future after a year that ...

• 10:31 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013

New York (full caption, below)

A trader wearing "Happy New Year" glasses works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. The stock market struggled for direction Monday morning after five days of losses, with the "fiscal cliff" just hours away and lawmakers yet to reach ...

• 6:17 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013

Washington, D.C. (full caption, below)

President Barack Obama winks as he arrives to make a statement regarding the passage of the fiscal cliff bill in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

• 6:17 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013

New York (full caption, below)

A worker clears confetti from a sidewalk in Times Square after midnight on New Years Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013, in New York. With fireworks, concerts and celebrations from Hong Kong to New York, revelers welcome 2013 with hope for a better future after a year that thudded to a close ...

• 6:17 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013

fiscal cliff

• 12:18 p.m. Monday, Dec. 31, 2012

White House threatens veto of Boehner's 'Plan B'

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), left, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Dec. 18, 2012. Boehner discussed a backup bill to avoid the "fiscal cliff," Tuesday, a day after President Barack Obama delivered an offer in the negotiations. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)

• 11:03 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012

AJC Photos of the Week, December 1-7, 2012

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks about the fiscal cliff at the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers, in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. The president warned Republicans not to create another fight over the nation's debt ceiling, telling business leaders it's "not a game that I ...

• 9:22 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012

AJC Photos of the Week, December 1-7, 2012

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to a closed-door Republican strategy session, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Speaking about the fiscal cliff, Boehner said Wednesday that the White House had failed to offer a "balanced approach" that had a chance of clearing either chamber of ...

• 9:22 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012

Analysis: Obama could risk going over 'cliff'

President Barack Obama, flanked by National Governors Association (NGA) Chairman, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, and NGA Vice Chair, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, meets with the NGA executive committee regarding the fiscal cliff, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ...

• 10:06 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012