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We have to extend relief from the doc fix and ensure that unemployment extensions are made possible. we need to make sure that seniors have access to their doctors and the unemployed continue to have support as they continue to on look for work, we have 23 months straight of private sector job growth. the presidents budget which he just submitted to congress, continueses to make the smart investments that we need to make to grow the recovery as well. >> would you go as far as voting against -- i...

Which expires at the end of this month for the rest of the year without paying for it. but the sticking point comes in extending unemployment insurance and also what is known as the doc fix. the medicare physician reimbursement. they are trying to find pay-fors for that. well explain all of this as we bring in the panel. steve hayes for "weekly standard." jeff zellng national political correspondent of the "new york times." syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. steve, the meetings are ongoin...

Idea of decoupling, because this is what this is, its a two-part strategy, decoupling the payroll tax holiday extension from unemployment benefits and the so-called doc fix, and extending it a year without paying for it? >> im going to think about it, chuck, i have reservations, i think it would be better for it to be paid for. it comes out of social security resources and yeah, it should be offset, so im going to wrestle with this one. >> and i want to ask you, you want this extended for sure o...

See a maximum of 93 weeks. republicans are saying pull out the payroll tax holiday, extend it for the rest of the year. they do not want to risk being blamed this election year for having taxes go up on 160 million citizens. they are going to present it to the rank-and-file tonight. gregg: what are democrats saying about the offer? >> reporter: first of all president obama is going to do an event later this hour, about 10:40 or so. the democrats have been emphasizing keeping these issues togethe...

Fix, you okay with that as long as its paid for? >> they should be paid for, i would like to see reforms in the unemployment insurance approach, the doc fix, its a fiction in our budget that we maintained for years pretepding that we would have a massive cut in reimbursement for doctors, it was never going to happen. it will never happen, we have to be have an honest budget that reflects reality. >> theres a funny thing when talking about the budget, if you guys did nothing, enacted no laws betw...

Finally, house republican leaders made what is a cut fight. the three house leaders, boehner, cantor and mcconnell announced they have not allowed conferees to support a responsible bipartisan agreement, house republicans would introduce a backup plan that would simply extend the payroll tax who will date end of the year while the conference negotiations continue. extend the tax for a year without paying for it that move would decouple the very popular payroll tax from an extension of unemployme...

Their members on extending the payroll tax holiday for the rest of the year without paying for it. this is congressional negotiators appear close to a broader deal including extending unemployment benefit and also the medicare reimbursement to doctors known as the doc fix. and paying for them by potentially selling off wireless band width, making some adjustments to federal worker retirement plans. and a few tweaks to the presidents healthcare law affecting providers. earlier the president messa...

First, we have not paid physicians adequately in the first place and we have this fix that we have to do every year. we are going to discourage physicians from wanting to continue to provide care for medicare patients. and so, we are then hurting the program that we are at least trying to publically say we are supporting much we have to take care of the the doc fix and we have to take care of making physicians somewhat satisfied with what we pay them. and number two, we have terrible, terrible, ...

Congress to secure a tax cut for 160 million americans through this year. speaker boehner and house republican leadership could be walking into the hornets nest today meeting with their conference to sell a clean ten-month extension of the payroll tax cut. they could get major backlash from tea party and rank-in-file conservative members. a ranking member of the housing budget committee is joining me this morning. congressman, i want to get your reaction to how surprised you are that after all t...

Extension of unemployment insurance and the payroll tax cut and do it before its late and ill do it right away. >> senator, it sounds like the president does not want to decouple the payroll tax extension from the unemployment benefits and the so-called doc fix which has to do with the fees that medicare pays doctors and it has to get reformed all the time because apparently the way it was originally passed in law was a mistake. so its also having to get fixed. its called a fix. are you okay wit...