The Presidential campaign is over, but some of your area lawmakers say President Barack Obama is still on the campaign trail.

“The clock is ticking and we’ve gotta get serious,” says Republican Congressman Ander Crenshaw.

Crenshaw says the President is taking the wrong approach on finding a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff- rather than taking it to thepeople, Crenshaw wants to see the President sit down with lawmakers to make the deal happen.He says, instead, he sees negotiations at a halt.

“It’s almost like we’re moving farther apart rather than closer,” he says.

For Crenshaw, the administration is not offering up enough details.He says the President is not addressing the specific spending cuts we should see.When I asked him what cuts Republicans have put forward, however, Crenshaw didn’t have an extensive list to offer either.He says entitlement spending needs to be reformed and a comprehensive tax reform put in place.

“That can broaden the base, it can lower rates, it can raise revenue, and it can reduce the deficit,” he says.

Tax reform is one issue that is important to your lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

Democratic Senator Bill Nelson was not available for an interview, but issued the following statement on the looming fiscal cliff.

“I believe we need a balanced and bipartisan approach to curing our country’s financial ills. That’s why I’m working to ensure the solution includes targeted spending cuts, making sure our tax code is fair and closing tax loopholes that benefit certain special interests. Also, I support extending the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 a year.”

The tax cuts are an area where one of the biggest divides has formed between the parties.Some republican leaders have now softened their position on the President’s proposal.Obama’s plan would extend tax cuts for all but the wealthiest Americans.If there is no deal reached, however, the tax rates would go up for everyone.As such, some now say it is better to side with the President’s plan rather than see the rate rise for everyone.

Crenshaw says letting the tax rate rise on the wealthiest Americans means letting the rate rise on business.I asked him if he saw himself softening his position at all and possibly siding with the President’s proposal.

“We can have more revenue, but we have to do it in a pro-growth way,” was his response.

Another big stake, especially here on the First Coast, is the “decimating” cuts which would take effect in defense spending.In addition to scheduled spending cuts, no budget deal means sequestration would occur.

“We can't afford to do that from a national security standpoint,” Crenshaw says.

It could also serve a big blow to Jacksonville, because of the heavy economic reliance the city has on the military and its bases.

Dating back months, Crenshaw expressed absolute confidence we would reach a budget deal to avoid sequestration and all the potential problems looming.As that clock continues to count down, however, he says it’s not so cut and dry.

“I’m hopeful, because I wanna believe that, but frankly there are a lot of moving parts,” he says.

For Crenshaw, the key to the deal is getting the entire package together, rather than focusing on any one particular part of the platform.