for their political benefit. it s tough. when you have voices that do this they are treated as sell outs for going over to the democratic side and selling out the movement. you have stories like lisa murkowski who was going along with there is no war on women and she went home to alaska and talked to her constituents and heard from women. she came back sounding a different tune. the more that happens, the more it s possible they start to get this message. sometimes it just takes they wander into these traps and it takes gettingรง this blow back r it to register. the comparable thing may be the pal roll tax where republicans started to pick a fight over how to pay for the payroll extension and realized it wasn t a good idea. that may be where this ends up now. it will be interesting to see. on the violence against women s act thing. on this what thai are using to pay for the student loan thing.
they are treated as sellouts for going over to the democratic side and selling out the movement. you have stories like lisa murkowski who was going along with there is no war on women and she went home to alaska and talked to her constituents and heard from women. she came back sounding a very different tune. the more that happens, the more it s possible they start to get this message. the other part is sometimes it just sort of takes them wandering into the traps through their own obliviousness and it takes getting this blow-back for it to register. the comparable thing may be the payroll tax where republicans started to pick a fight over how to pay for the payroll extension and realized it wasn t a good idea. that may be where this ends up now. it will be interesting to see. on the violence against women s act thing. i have a piece of republicans in congress. go talk to lisa murkowski. you don t have to be persuaded by them but hear their reasoning. you re never going to hear it
in the health care arena. also we re seeing an uptick in manufacturing. but more importantly in areas like professional business development, we re seeing good job growth. and these are full-time jobs. they re not just all temporary jobs. i ve been asked that throughout the day. and i can tell you that even if they are temporary jobs, they lead, too, full time jobs. we re pushing that out. thank goodness we were able to get the ui extension and payroll extension. there s a demand. people are going to buy products. what we want to do is make items here in america and sell them to other people abroad and bring those jobs back home here in the usa. well, we re going to have to let it go there, but thanks so much for being with us, secretary of labor, hilda solis. thank you for your time tonight. thank you. ahead look out. a panda bear has been spotted in the south. he also answers to the name willard. wait until you hear what he s saying about his love for one
40%. that would make it worse than last year. 2011 fell short of predictions by the white house. private economists as well. bret: wendell goler travelintraveling with the prest in san francisco. thank you. back here in washington, payroll extension has been reached. the bigger problem has to do with the jobless benefits. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill tonight. it s a done deal. after intense debate, congressional negotiators formally signed off on the deal extending the payroll tax holiday for the rest of the year. the package prevents a 27.4% cut to physicians who treat medicare patients. it extends unemployment insurance with the new job search requirements and cuts maximum benefit to average of 73 weeks from the current 93 weeks. this is an economic relief package because the president policies not only failed they have made the economy worse.
republicans are cool with the idea of raising taxes on 160 million americans by allowing the payroll extension to expire. here is speaker boehner on that. i will not allow the democrats to continue to play political games and raise taxes on working americans. so we made a decision for bring them to the table so the games would stop and we would get this work done. reporter: we have been waiting to hear from the negotiators that the comprehensive package extending the payroll tax holiday, unemployment insurance, and the medicare reimbursement known as the doc fix was done, but the top democratic negotiator has sounded confident. well, life is probabilities. a high probability this will get done. reporter: but it is not done until it is done. there is probably something not package that everybody will not like but some would suggest that