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want to talk about what is going to happen in washington. places like mexico on taxpayer junkets, and we will be joined we have had divided governments in the past and everyone says it is not worse, but they fixed it and got better and that is the american can-do way. all right. we want congress the feel the heat, but see the light. let's make them work. we are joined by congressman sewell from new york, and congresswoman grimm. i am glad you are smiling after the intro, but you are sitting here a democrat and a republican, and are you going the work together? >> i think that one thi...

world. let's go outfront. well, good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett and "outfront" tonight, and welcome back, congress. we missed you. we really did. after four weeks away from washington, the house is returning to work today, hopefully rested and ready to make up for an abysmal 2011. the track record. full of failures. they didn't raise the debt ceiling which caused america's credit rating to be cut which hurts all of us. and they didn't agree on a budget. causing several near shutdowns. committee deal. and no tax cuts. so it is no surprise that the newest cnn poll shows only...

kyra? but in the next half an hour, we should see the senate come into session and this deal could pass within maybe one or two minutes. it could be that short as both the senate and the house are expected to pass this legislation. this payroll tax extension deal using a procedural move that basically allows them to pass legislation without having to call all of the members back into town. so, according to both democratic and republican leadership aides on the senate side, they do expect that things are moving towards a passage on the senate side and then, of course, all eyes turn to...

Interests. including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our election. >> reporter: which drew the now famous head shake and, "not true" response from justice alito. the court had ruled that corporations and unions but not foreign corporations could fund political ads for or against candidates. the chief justice suggests the state of the union is not the proper venue for the criticism. >> it pause to think whether or not it makes sense for us to be there. to extent the "state of the union" has degenerated to political pep rally, i'm not sure why we're there. >> reporter: the white ...

Of events that he was in the president's line of sight and he said, he can do it. >> that's right. right now we're seeing the talk about these allegations of misconduct by dr. jackson. >> do you have any additional reporting on that? >> there's just chatter. it's not verified. we know there's some lawmakers on capitol hill who was alarmed by what was said. it points to the fact there wasn't a real vetting at the white house. the talk now also the seems to be overshadowing the fact that dr. jackson was wildly unqualified for this job. >> let's hit pause. before this story broke, this was the pr...