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called legitimate rape, akin is facing louder calls from gop officials for him to step aside. steve handelsman has the story. >> reporter: the issue of abortion rights for victim rapes is posing possible damage to the romney-ryan presidential campaign with women voters. they mostly back president obama, who weighed in. >> his comments were offensive. rape is rape. >> reporter: it was republican congressman todd akin running for a senate seat in missouri who set off the firestorm. he was arguing against abortion rights for sexual assault victims. >> it seems to me, first of all, from ...

after his comments about what he called legitimate rape, akin is facing louder calls from gop officials for him to step aside. steve handelsman has the story. >> reporter: the issue of abortion rights for the victims of rape is posing possible damage to the ryan romney presidential campaign with women voters. they mostly back president obama, who weighed in. >> his comments were offensive. rape is rape. >> reporter: it was republican congressman todd akin running for a senate seat in missouri who set off the firestorm. he was arguing against abortion rights for sexual assault victims...

congressman todd akin says he will not drop out of the u.s. senate race in missouri, but after his comments about what he called legitimate rape, akin is facing louder calls from republicans for him to step aside. steve handelsman has the story. >> reporter: the usual of abortion rights was posed to the ryan-romney presidential campaign with women voters who back president obama who weighed in. >> his comments were offensive. rape is rape. >> reporter: it was republican congressman todd akin running for a senate seat in missouri. he was arguing against abortion rights for sexual assa...

with the payroll tax cut. a deal has been worked out to extend a 2% cut in the payroll tax through the end of the year. tracie potts has more on this. good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. here's why it was a big deal. if congress does nothing, then that payroll tax cut that put extra money in workers paychecks this year expires at the end of the month, and no one here on capitol hill wants to deal with the political fallout of that. negotiators announced a tentative deal last night that keeps the 2% payroll tax cut in place. the rest of the year for 160 million working amer...

a deal has been worked out to extend a 2% cut in the payroll tax through the end of the year. tracie potts has more on this. good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. here's why it was a big deal. if congress does nothing, then that payroll tax cut that put extra money in workers paychecks this year expires at the end of the month, and no one here on capitol hill wants to deal with the political fallout of that. negotiators announced a tentative deal last night that keeps the 2% payroll tax cut in place. the rest of the year for 160 million working americans. >> at the end of th...