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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 unemployment insurance benefits and measure to prevent the drop in fees paid to doctors by medicare known as t...

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 president's healthcare law affecting providers. earlier the president message to congress was get it done. >> just pass middle class tax cut. pass extension of unemployment i...

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, unemployment numbers, things have gotten better, we have had 23 straight months of adding jobs but t...

Congress to secure a tax cut for 160 million americans through this year. speaker boehner and house republican leadership could be walking into the hornet's 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 these months of fighting over the pay-ifs that the republican leadership is ready to abandon their c...

Extension of unemployment insurance and the payroll tax cut and do it before it's late and i'll 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 it's also having to get fixed. it's called a fix. are you okay with this decoupling or do you want it all together? one negotiation? >> i think you are right, the...