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Trade and also the key stone excel pipeline which the president, this administration has postponed on a decision until after the 2012 election. kristen welker is live at the white house. and kristen, senate majority leader harry reid said the president will not be going to hawaii for his vacation but will stay behind in washington to get this pay roll tax holiday extension done. and of course, there is the issue of unemployment benefits. is the white house trying to use that to ratchet up pressure on republicans even more? >> reporter: i think to some extent, you heard valerie jarrett come out...

It is unlikely that congress will leave, though, without getting something done. because the real pressure may be coming from their constituents. these are pocket book issues. a lot of these senators, members of congress, up for re-election next year, including the president. so it would sort of look bad all around. if lawmakers went on winter break without actually having some movement on pay roll tax cuts and unemployment insurance. the big question has been about how to fund this. with democrats saying, look, let's tax folks who are making a million dollars or more and then you have republi...

Growth in the household income of only 18 percent and the upper 20 percent seeing the household income growth of around 65 percent. >>neil: are you in the camp that says way to even that is to sock it to the rich? >>guest: i'm not trying to even anything or trying to second it to anybody. i'm trying to have something that is fair for everybody and let us all grow at the same rate. >>neil: but you are not for hiking taxes on the rich $i get that right? >>guest: i said if my republican friends do not want to see a surcharge of 3 why 3.25 percent then use the overseas contingency account and pay ...

To show how much greed has gotten into the political system. how it has become in essence, really a very difficult america for middle class families to extend forward. democrats are hammering through that message every chance they have under this issue of the pay roll tax cut holiday. something that republicans have struggled to figure out where exactly they stand on it. their conference is still very divided in the house about whether or not to put forward the pay roll tax cut holiday extension. if that doesn't go forward, working americans will probably see an average of $1,500 disappear fro...