Obama signs Fiscal Cliff Bill with autopen

America's First signed one of the most crucial fiscal documents while on vacation in Hawaii

WASHINGTON (AP) - Onward to the next fiscal crisis. Actually, several of them, potentially. The New Year's Day deal averting the "fiscal cliff" lays the groundwork for more combustible struggles in Washington over taxes, spending and debt in the next few months.

President Barack Obama's victory on taxes this week was the second, grudging round of piecemeal successes in as many years in chipping away at the nation's mountainous deficits.