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Expires on february 29th. the medicare dock fix. well see a few things pertaining to internet and piracy laws. as well as a vote against raising the federal debt limit. as you see on that graphic there, the debt ceiling disapproval vote has a lot of members in the house saying they dont want to see the debt limit being raised again. of that list, the most important is the payroll tax cut extension. if nothing is figured out before february 29th, those taxes could go up. its been an issue that so...

Require more time to work out a one-year tax cut and why its important to make sure for the next two months, we do not have an increase in the payroll tax. >> greta: the uncertainty gi$20 a week, which is not insignificant to a lot of families. but thats not going to stimulate the economy, if it doesnt happen. i think probably the more urgent issue maybe the doctor fix for people who want their doctors paid or make sure that the doctors accept new patients. we havent even touched on that. >> rig...

Require more time to work out a one-year tax cut and why its important to make sure for the next two months, we do not have an increase in the payroll tax. >> greta: the uncertainty gi$20 a week, which is not insignificant to a lot of families. but thats not going to stimulate the economy, if it doesnt happen. i think probably the more urgent issue maybe the doctor fix for people who want their doctors paid or make sure that the doctors accept new patients. we havent even touched on that. >> rig...

To get rid of this sgr, this dock fix, so that doctors who take care of the senior citizens dont have to worry every few months as to whether or not theyre going to get paid the following month. so those are some of the things we certainly have to do. couple of other things that are paramount in my mind. the faa reauthorization. we have to get this done. we got a short-term extension. this involves the employment of a couple hundred thousand new people, couple hundred thousand. we made many offe...

Floor talking about the deal. >> a state that has been hit really hard by unemployment has also -- is rhode island. and no one in the senate has been more protective of the unemployed than jack reed. the fourth country will be bob casey. bob casey is chairman of the joint economic committee and this is his bill. the payroll tax holiday extension is bob caseys legislation. ive talked to each of them. theyre going to work expeditiously to come up with a long-term arrangement on the payroll tax, on...

kyra? but in the next half an hour, we should see the senate come into session and this deal could pass within maybe one or two minutes. it could be that short as both the senate and the house are expected to pass this legislation. this payroll tax extension deal using a procedural move that basically allows them to pass legislation without having to call all of the members back into town. so, according to both democratic and republican leadership aides on the senate side, they do expe...

way. in the end house speaker john boehner, he caved in and he gave in to political pressure but still he defends the stand that he took. >> we have fought the fight, the good fight, but i talked to enough members over the last 24 hours who believe that, hey, listen, we dont like this two-month extension. we dont like this reporting problem in the senate bill and if you can get this fixed, why not do the right thing for the american people even though its not exactly what we want. >> i...

One-year extension. you have the president saying i agree with the senate minority leader. lets get this done and help save the american people an average of $40 as the president and the white house was making an issue out of all this. we will be looking to see what other kinds of reactions we will get from john boehner who after senator mcconnell put out the statement pushed back and said no, we want an immediate one-year deal. all of us who have been following this, the idea that you will get ...

full fledged congressional showdown with a tax hike for millions of americans hanging in the balance. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." this just coming in. our brand new poll numbers hitting pitting president obama against the republican candidate. the survey puts each toe to toe the president and even though the election is still almost 11 months away, the results still troubling for the gop. lets go inside the numbers with ron brownstein of the national journal. than...

Bottom line, everybody seems to be trying to resolve this as quickly as possible. the idea of a government shutdown seemed to freak everybody out. today two leaders on opposite sides of a lot of issues struck a similar tone. take a listen. >> there is no reason the government should shutdown over. this and i expect all of us to do whats necessary in order to do the peoples business and make sure that its done before the end of the year. >> we believe its important to keep the government open and...