in limbo with less than two weeks before this tax break runs out. now, here s an interesting note. john boehner, the house speaker, last summer called extending the payroll tax break a short-term gimmick. now at the end of the year, against the deadline, he s insisting on doing it for an entire year. lynn? all right, there you go. in washington, tracie potts. thank you so much. last night on the last word with lawrence o donnell, lawrence and democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz discussed late-breaking rumors that republican leaders in the house wouldn t even allow a promise vote on the payroll tax bill and why. we ve adjourned for the evening. the house republicans didn t bring the vote up didn t bring the senate bill up for a vote tonight, pushed it to tomorrow, and now we re hearing that the rules committee is going to basically punt the legislation, we re not going to have a vote on the bill at all, and we re just going to have a
confused, sit down, work with president obama and congressional democrats and pass the payroll tax. it s unacceptable and they don t understand how devastating that that $1,000 would be. it s pervasive throughout the whole party. they called to are a payroll tax break a little band-aid. can t decide whether he s for it or against it on any given day. they really republicans really don t grasp the struggle that middle class working families are going through right now. they seem to care only about the wealthiest, most fortunate americans. that s just factual based on their record. that said, a decision on extending the pipeline, potentially divisive issue for democrats, because some have unions that are for it or some
30,000 wounded warriors, many of whom still struggle with serious, life-altering injuries. reporter: it s estimated more than 150,000 iraqis lost their lives in the war. most of them civilians. 16 days to go before the typical american worker gets hit with $1,000 a year tax increase. there are some signs now republicans, democrats, might, might break their log jam over extending the payroll tax cut. democratic source says that president obama may drop his plan for a millionaire surtax to cover the cost of extending it. republicans oppose any new taxes on the wealthy. they would like to pay for the extension primarily by freezing ped ral pay. mitt romney rolling out an aggressive new strategy to stop newt gingrich. romney, in a flurry of interviews, says gingrich and his policy ideas are zany. that s right. he says we don t need zany in a president. he labels gingrich an unreliable conservative. gingrich climbed to the top of national presidential polls after herman cain
these items. the payroll tax cut before the holidays. party leaders in the senate now say they re trying to come up with terms come to terms with something and that may be more likely now that democrats have given up trying to pass a new tax on millionaires. but wait, there is more. in less than 36 hours, much of the federal government will run out of money. the latest as seven budgetary stop gaps runs ot out at midnight tomorrow night. while lawmakers scramble to come up with a plan, nobody s voted on anything. we ll certainly keep you posted. in baghdad today, the end became real. u.s. forces lowered the flag of command, closing the book on a controversial war that claimed almost 4,500 american lives and cost more than $800 billion. defense secretary leon panetta was there. to all of the men and women in uniform today, your nation is deeply indebted to you. you have done everything your nation asked you to do and more. your dedication, your commitment to this missio
i ll remember that next time you have a high profile case. by the way, did he take five? he didn t take the fifth. a lot of people thought he would. he didn t, to his credit. you think he knows what he s doing? he told him to take the fifth and i said i can t because of my ego. you think gary would go down on a sinking ship? i assure you in his oh, stop. shepard: both of you stop. we have to move on. sorry. shepard: nice to see you. you ll be bad, sadly. we ve been telling you how our taxes are going up if lawmakers can t cut a deal on the payroll tax break. the response from washington, talk of hostage taking and government shutdown. be very afraid! the latest from capitol hill coming up plus our blago, my goodness. i wish he could fly like he used