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4.2%. >> what is happening here today is shameful, it is a disgrace, it is unreal, it's unbelievable. >> reporter: the senate passed the two-month tax cut overwhelmingly over the weekend after failing to reach agreement on how to pay for a one-year plan. then they left town giving house speaker john boehner one option-- take it or leave it. senate democrats say they're not coming back. does this mean the tax cuts are going to lapse? >> we have done our job. all we need now is to resolve our differences. a two-month extension is nothing more than kicking the can down the road. >> repo...

>> pelley: good evening, in just 12 days 160 million work could see a tax increase in their paychecks and nearly two million others are struggling to get by without a paycheck could lose their unemployment. the house today said the clock ticking toward that new year's day punch in the pocketbook when it turned down a bill that has been passed by the senate. that bill would have extended the 2% cut in the social security payroll tax and kept job benefits flowing. what happens now? congressional correspondent nancy cordes is on capitol hill, nancy? >> reporter: scott, we are now offici...

it's touching off a debate within the party, and we asked jan crawford to look at the words of the former speaker of the house. >> i don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century. >> reporter: gingrich made the case that longtime illegal immigrants with children and deep ties in their communities should be able to live in the united states legally. >> and i'm prepared to take the heat for saying let's be humane in enforcing the law without giving them citizenship, bu...