you think the white house is getting their point across? that is a countdown clock showing nine days that that is how much time the white house has to extend the payroll tax cut or your taxes are going to go up. americans can go to this site and actually share their stories of what will happen to them if they lose their $40 per paycheck. that s the average an american will lose. let me bring in dan lothian and, dan, this seems like a full-on pr campaign by the white house and they re keeping the pressure up and i don t know if people saw it on the screen. this is what happened if congress doesn t act. it crossed out the word congress and it specifically says, the house doesn t act. they ve been keeping the pressure now on house republicans all week and now it s another effort by this white house to drive that point home today where the president is holding an event here at the white house shortly after noon to show what s at stake. you ve been talking about how the white ho
extension that was passed by the senate. today neither side shows any signs of giving in. i told the president there s one big reason why we need to do a full year, and that s jobs. a one-year bill like the president requested and like the house produced is simply better for jobs and better for our economy. let s enact this bipartisan compromise, however, to eliminate uncertainty for american families and then get right to work on a one-year version. not wait until february. not walk away and hold off until the last minute. got more encouraging news about the job market. the number of people filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level since april of 2008. labor department says initial claims dropped to 364,000. that is down 4,000 from a week before. many economists say a level below 400,000 means enough job growth to lower the unemployment rate. a wave of explosions rocks baghdad. car bombs, six roadside bombs, and a mortar ro