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I dont want to be a bad guy. im not hoping that corzine goes to prison. i just want to know whether the law was broken or not, period. >> i think thats fair. >> bill: pinheads in congress want to go home for christmas, all right? i will be home for christmas you can count on me because i havent done anything all year and why should i do anything now? so now the payroll tax is whether its going to be extended or not and working americans need the money. >> sure. >> bill: is it going to get done n...

I dont want to be a bad guy. im not hoping that corzine goes to prison. i just want to know whether the law was broken or not, period. >> i think thats fair. >> bill: pinheads in congress want to go home for christmas, all right? i will be home for christmas you can count on me because i havent done anything all year and why should i do anything now? so now the payroll tax is whether its going to be extended or not and working americans need the money. >> sure. >> bill: is it going to get done n...

Republican plan later tonight. they would pay for the payroll tax cut extension by freezing federal workers salaries, possibly all the way up to 2015. thats where the bulk of the money would come from as well as restructure their benefits there. theres also talk of susan collins and claire mccaskill, two senators, one republican, one democrat, they would actually ichbt dues a plan that would still have a millionaires sur tax but put down the payroll tax holiday, keep it at 4.2% where it is right...

Megyn: congress has just a couple of weeks left before the end of the year and doctors say the health care system is about to take a huge hit if lawmakers dont find money to fill a shaijor -- major shortfall in medicare payments to doctors f nothing is done, doctors will see a 30 percent pay cut for treating medicare patients starting the first of the year. think that might have an impact on care? our next guest says that could. joining me now, dr. marc siegl, who is part of our fox news and med...

The room. i just cant see them. so thats something that a lot of doctors keep in mind. once they walk away from medicare, if the patient is taking medicare, theyre not going to be -- >> megyn: so could that lead to a decrease in the number of doctors available to medicare patients? because you get to the point where you say its not worth it to me, i cant see all these medicare patients for what im being paid now, never mind what im being paid, minus 30 percent. >> im going to tell you a statisti...

When you are in difficult economic times as we are and you need to put people back to work as well as dealing with the deficit, how do you do that? by enabling the economy to grow. the best way to hurt economic growth is to impose more taxes on the people who do the hiring. as a result, republicans have said dont raise the existing tax rates on those who do the hiring. instead, i hope we can get into this explore the kinds of things that we did during the deficit reduction committee work to refo...

Republicans supporting tax increase in an election year. so, both sides kind of see this as something they can use to their advantage, politically. democrats saying looking how hypocritical the republicans are. in terms of what is going to happen, it will really come down to 11th hour negotiation that weve seen all year. i suspect president obama will get involved according to that source that i have spoken to on capitol hill. john boehner, harry reid. you saw the way forward with the poison pil...

When you are in difficult economic times as we are and you need to put people back to work as well as dealing with the deficit, how do you do that? by enabling the economy to grow. the best way to hurt economic growth is to impose more taxes on the people who do the hiring. as a result, republicans have said dont raise the existing tax rates on those who do the hiring. instead, i hope we can get into this explore the kinds of things that we did during the deficit reduction committee work to refo...

When you are in difficult economic times as we are and you need to put people back to work as well as dealing with the deficit, how do you do that? by enabling the economy to grow. the best way to hurt economic growth is to impose more taxes on the people who do the hiring. as a result, republicans have said dont raise the existing tax rates on those who do the hiring. instead, i hope we can get into this explore the kinds of things that we did during the deficit reduction committee work to refo...

The other side can never agree to something. republicans have made offers. they have made offers where they closed the loopholes, where it changes and expands the revenue into government simply from the fact that we expand the economy and grow. that is a fundamental difference thats out there. but the democrats have never even proposed a plan. what has the president done? now and then he phones in. well, you cant be e.t. you actually have to lead. >> lastly, there are some things that are going ...