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no. bob: oscar, hey! what are you talking about? i m an italian cook. oscar, you like it. you would. i know you a gourmet. what is that anyway? it s funny sounding greg: if you don t pronounce the t it s communistic. kimberly: there is one recipe and dana: we might provide it later on special reporting after this. but we ll come back and do one more thing. kimberly: now you re french. hey, did you ever finish last month s invoices?
fix. and would you ask your boss s wife out on a date? especially if your boss is the president of the united states? announcer: from cnn s world headquarters bringing you news and analysis from around the globe, live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning with t.j. holmes. let s start with the senate. open for business today. it will be open about three hours from now. they have some work to do. they need to work on a couple of bills. one is a big spending bill that will fund the government through september. a deal is reached that will keep us from having a government shutdown. the government was supposed to run out of money, a one-day extension so they could vote today. looks like crisis averted there. the other issue is payroll tax holiday extension. that could mean an extra $1,000 in your pocket. at least mean you won t lose that $1,000 at the beginning of the year. a compromise keeps it going for another two months. okay. two months is not something that
also, would you ask your boss wife out on a date? especially if your boss is the president of the united states? we ll explain this and you ve been chiming in on it this morning as well. let s start with the senate. open for business today. they ll be in session. first on that agenda is extending the payroll tax holiday. this is a compromised keel that appears to have been reached. it s just an extension that goes for two months. it means we have to come back and do this all over again in 6 house today. athena, the white house at least happy to know that the taxes for a lot of folks in this country will not go up january 1? well, yes, they say they are. they say this deal meets the test that the president set out. he s been saying for days and weeks, really, that the important thing is that taxes for 160 million americans don t go up on january 1st and even though they ll have to return to this whole issue in another two months, for now this is a significant step and it s
so they have averted a government shutdown. the house voted this after into on the megamuss, as they call it around here the massive spending bill to fund the government through the end of september. so, this has been negotiated for months now. and congressional leaders came to an agreement late yesterday evening finalizing this massive spending bill, the house voted on it today so a government shutdown has been averted. the senate is expected, they could still vote on it ostensibly, vote on it today, most likely, the senate will be in working tomorrow and vote on it tomorrow. the big overwhat really kind of started this whole standoff and brinksmanship up here, the latest round of brinksmanship is where do things stand on ex-standing the payroll tax cut? short answer, brooke, still negotiating, still talking, with he don t have the details of when we could be hearing an answer if they are going to be able to beat the deadline of the end of the year or not, but we know both t