way. in the end house speaker john boehner, he caved in and he gave in to political pressure but still he defends the stand that he took. we have fought the fight, the good fight, but i talked to enough members over the last 24 hours who believe that, hey, listen, we don t like this two-month extension. we don t like this reporting problem in the senate bill and if you can get this fixed, why not do the right thing for the american people even though it s not exactly what we want. it seems that everything we ve done this last year has been a knockdown dragout fight. there is no reason to do that. if there were a message received from this last thing we ve been through, i would hope especially i repeat the new members of the house will understand that legislation is the art of compromise. now the tax cut deal is a win for the president. he pushed back pretty hard against house republicans who opposed the short-term extension. white house did issue a statement saying, i q