>> we're very close. i don't have anything to announce right now but we've been working all weekend and the staff has been working all weekend and we're very close. we have a structure and framework but nothing i can announce right now. >> with this potential deal, unemployment benefits would be extended until the end of 2012 and so would medicare payment rates for doctors. and even though this bill has a big price tag, we're told it would not be paid for by new taxes of senior house leadership aide tells us all new spending here is fully offset by spending cuts and government reforms to things like unemployment benefits and a number of weeks a person can be on the jobless insurance program which appears to make it more attractive to members of both parties in the house and in the senate. it's pretty clear at least to me that the payroll tax is going to pass. the question is whether it will have unemployment connected with