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Tonight. Im maureen umeh. The deal would delay harsh spending cut for two months, but it appears the house will not vote before tonights midnight deadline. Well continue to work on finding smarter ways to cut spending, but lets not let that hold up protecting americans from the tax hike that will take place. We can do this. We must do this. Reporter though it is down to the wire. Its december the 31st january 1st is tomorrow, 2013, taxes go up. Reporter a frustrated senator john kuhn said the senate should have acted months ago to keep the economy from going off the fiscal cliff. I just find it really hard to sit and listen to people come up now and wring their hands and talk about gee whiz, you know, i really hope we can get something done here in the last day as we put two people together basically to resolve this. Reporter the two people were Senate Republican leader Mitch ....
7brac projects. i sent a letter immediately that asked the secretary of defense to specifically include the m ark center as one of the sites. we re ready. we still have a way to go. reporter: news of the possible delay in the opening was welcomed by carey donnelly. this lacks the existing infrastructure but the infrastructure supports that level of workforce. reporter: the improvements planned would include new roads and bridges to allow dod workers to get in and out of marks center without adding to the computing headache people already have. it s a head anesthetic coming up on 395 as it is, imagine happen thousand more into this immediate area. it s hard to get on 395 without hitting any kind of traffic. reporter: the armed services committee bill still has to be approved by the full house and senate but, for now, virginia officials say they hope they have at least put the brakes on what could have been a traffic nightmare. the department of defense ha ....