WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States averted economic calamity on Tuesday when lawmakers approved a deal preventing huge tax hikes and spending cuts that would have pushed the world's largest economy off the "fiscal cliff" into recession.
By a vote of 257 to 167, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives approved a bill that fulfils President Barack Obama's re-election promise to raise taxes on top earners.
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