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Urging congress to act. compromise seemed likely 24 hours ago now elusive as republicans push a vote that's not expected to ever reach the president's desk. actually two votes, because we're hearing there could be two separate votes when this comes up tomorrow, one to keep tax rates low for the middle class, and a separate vote to keep rate lows for everyone making under $1 million. >> tracie potts, thank you. as democrats and republicans battle over the budget defense secretary leon panetta is making a last-minute plea to help avoid a fiscal disaster. speaking at the national press club yes...

An appealing carrot at a time of cutbacks. u.s. taxpayers, you and me, spent $74 billion on prisons in 2007 with the biggest increase of our money going to for-profit prison companies. and yes, publically traded for-profit prison companies exist. these companies have massive lobbying and political wings to keep the war on drugs alive as they also happen to use the very prisoners that they put into our prisons as cheap labor. we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to federal campaigns and millions of dollars to state elections and local politicians, not to mention...

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