super committee, if they ll get it done. let s go outfront. good evening everyone. i m erin burnett. we re in countdown, counting down to a tax hike. congress has ten days to reach a deal that will keep american taxes from going up on january 1st. if they fail to agree, the average american worker will lose $40 a week. under fire today, republican house members who rejected a deal that would have extended the payroll tax cut by two months. past the two-month extension, return to work on the year-long ic extension, or else explain to the american people, 160 million, why congress would not listen to them. the speaker in turn went before the cameras to make his point. we re here. we re ready to work, looking for our counterparts to sit down with us so we can do what the president, bipartisan leaders in the house and senate all want. that s to extend the payroll tax cut for one year. deja deal. if everyone wants to make a deal, why do we not yet have one? let s askin
let s go outfront. good evening everyone. i m erin burnett. we re in countdown, counting down to a tax hike. congress has ten days to reach a deal that will keep american taxes from going up on january 1st. if they fail to agree, the average american worker will lose $40 a week. under fire today, republican house members who rejected a deal that would have extended the payroll tax cut by two months. past the two-month extension, return to work on the year-long extension or explain to the american people, 160 million of them, why congress would not listen to them. the speaker in turn went before the cameras to make his point. we re here. we re ready to work, looking for our counterparts to sit down with us so we can do what the president, bipartisan leaders in the house and senate all want. that s to extend the payroll tax cut for one year. deja deal. why don t we have a deal? let s asking republican jeb hensarling from texas, co-chair of the deficit super committe
i m erin burnett. we re in countdown, counting down to a tax hike. congress has ten days to reach a deal that will keep american taxes from going up on january 1st. if they fail to agree, the average american worker will lose $40 a week. under fire today, republican house members who rejected a deal that would have extended the payroll tax cut by two months. past the two-month extension, return to work on the year-long ic extension, or else explain to the american people, 160 million, why congress would not listen to them. the speaker in turn went before the cameras to make his point. we re here. we re ready to work, looking for our counterparts to sit down with us so we can do what the president, bipartisan leaders in the house and senate all want. that s to extend the payroll tax cut for one year. deja deal. if everyone wants to make a deal, why do we not yet have one? let s asking republican jeb hensarling from texas, co-chair of the deficit super committee which,