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his tax rate, mitt romney reveals his tax rate. fair or unfair? and fact or not? are the congress members back in session refresh and ready to change the world -- or not? let's go "outfront." well, good ooevening, everyone. i'm erin burnett and "outfront" tonight, and welcome back, congress. we missed you. we really did. after -- well, that may have been a bizarre and appropriate slip of the tongue. but members are back in the house today to make up for frankly an abysmal 2011. the track record. full of failures. they didn't raise the debt ceiling which caused america's credit ra...

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...

Middle class squeeze. steve, always great to see you. >> good to be with you. what we have here. >> all right, so -- i was going to ask you to explain to us what is happening here? >> what is happening here is the middle class is getting shafted. congress passes the tax credits but takes them away when you reach a certain income level. we cited the case of a woman making a choice perhaps between a $60,000 job and a $120,000 job. if she takes the $120,000 job which means more hours and more stress she will loss about 80% of the income to higher taxes loss of college aid because when you go abov...

Than that. we talk about a labor market that's healing and we've slowed down on the big massive job losses and the like but there still is this huge overhang, a sea of jobless people right now. it takes 100 to 150,000 new jobs every month to just to keep up with population growth. we're not creating any. we're still kind of losing jobs. it could take four, five, six, by my calculation seven years to eat through the overhanging to get jobs for everybody who loft them and to absorb the new workers. seven years, that's ridiculous. there's going to be a lot of triaging of bills of american familie...