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effect in 2013. jon: still aways away from that actual deadline. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. what is the latest move and the latest committee, jon? reporter: moments ago, chris van hollen, democrat from maryland, who is a super-committee member, said as you get near the midnight hour tensions go up. there is a great deal of tension on capitol hill. late last night after a 2:00 1/2 hour bipartisan meeting that produced no results we caught up with massachusetts senator john kerry. take a listen to his tone. we re going to keep working. i ll talk and work till, you know, the last dog dies as they say. reporter: now today we know that super-committee republicans have scheduled two meetings. presumably democrats will be doing similar. there may be a little bit of back and forth from republicans to democrats and vice versa but there have been many, many meetings day and night in recent days and no breakthrough so far, jon. jon:
that actual deadline. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. what is the latest move and the latest committee, jon? reporter: moments ago, chris van hollen, democrat from maryland, who is a super-committee member, said as you get near the midnight hour tensions go up. there is a great deal of tension on capitol hill. late last night after a 2:00 1/2 hour bipartisan meeting that produced no results we caught up with massachusetts senator john kerry. take a listen to his tone. we re going to keep working. i ll talk and work till, you know, the last dog dies as they say. reporter: now today we know that super-committee republicans have scheduled two meetings. presumably democrats will be doing similar. there may be a little bit of back and forth from republicans to democrats and vice versa but there have been many, many meetings day and night in recent days and no breakthrough so far, jon. jon: now the axe that has been hanging over thi