the senate, dem leader, and senate republican leader achieved towards a year-long solution to extending the payroll tax cut. they worked very hard on that. senator reid worked very hard on that bipartisan compromise. they could not quite achieve it in the time allowed and passed a overwhelmingly bipartisan two-month extension as insurance to make sure their americans did not have their taxes go up in 11 days and 10 hour. 160 million americans. that is absolutely what must get done and the house still has that option. so we hope they take it. so what is the president going to do? is he going to do anything? he will continue to urge the house to do the responsible thing, not for him, not for democrats or republicans, not for party, but for the american
social security and medicare, i am running for dem leader. and gop leaders claim they are happy to hear it. the national republican congressional committee putting out this statement, we welcome her decision to run for house minority leader based on her proven ability to create jobs for republican lawmakers. the question is will democratic lawmakers want her back after their election night bloodbath. i talked with fox news sunday anchor chris wallace. she has been making a lot of on the hill ever since election day and if there is one thing nancy pelosi can do it count and my guess is if she announced she is running for minority leader it is because she knows she has the votes to do it. in fact, wallace says the election results may actually help her chances because there will now be more liberal democrats in the house. jim engel live in the d.c. newsroom. pelosi also sent a better to