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fix. and would you ask your boss s wife out on a date? especially if your boss is the president of the united states? announcer: from cnn s world headquarters bringing you news and analysis from around the globe, live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning with t.j. holmes. let s start with the senate. open for business today. it will be open about three hours from now. they have some work to do. they need to work on a couple of bills. one is a big spending bill that will fund the government through september. a deal is reached that will keep us from having a government shutdown. the government was supposed to run out of money, a one-day extension so they could vote today. looks like crisis averted there. the other issue is payroll tax holiday extension. that could mean an extra $1,000 in your pocket. at least mean you won t lose that $1,000 at the beginning of the year. a compromise keeps it going for another two months. okay. two months is not something that
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also, would you ask your boss wife out on a date? especially if your boss is the president of the united states? we ll explain this and you ve been chiming in on it this morning as well. let s start with the senate. open for business today. they ll be in session. first on that agenda is extending the payroll tax holiday. this is a compromised keel that appears to have been reached. it s just an extension that goes for two months. it means we have to come back and do this all over again in 6 house today. athena, the white house at least happy to know that the taxes for a lot of folks in this country will not go up january 1? well, yes, they say they are. they say this deal meets the test that the president set out. he s been saying for days and weeks, really, that the important thing is that taxes for 160 million americans don t go up on january 1st and even though they ll have to return to this whole issue in another two months, for now this is a significant step and it s
it up, as well. still, we re not done. much more in just a moment on capitol hill. also, this is a brave marine. but this time, b he s pretty brave to ask the first lady of the united states to the ball. he asked her out. we ll see how this is played out. also, for keyby bryant, we know how this is going to play out. his wife, vanessa, has now filed for divorce. details on why in just a moment. but from the cnn center, this is your saturday morning. so glad you could spend part of your weekend with us. one down, one to go. after minutes to go, the senate approved one of the bills in front of them. today and so far this morning, it was that payroll tax extension. that means your paycheck should stay about the same, but only for the next couple of months. if it had expired, then the government would have been taking a bigger chunk out of your paycheck. the average american family would see about $1,000 increase in their paychecks per month. the house has to take this up, howeve