the hastert rule, risk instigating the majority of the majority to pass this rule, we do not know the answer. john boehner has broken that rule several times already this year, but to your point on what s adequate pressure on the house to pass it, are you saying this needs to have very, very strong republican support to get boehner to do anything on it? it needs to be like that payroll tax compromise last year, remember two years ago time flying up here where there s such a bipartisan majority, the house has to they look very bad to the general public. the numbers support university background checks, these types of watered-down measures have a lot of universal approval, but boehner, he will violate the hastert rule, they did it yesterday, to include the revolutionary war and war of 1812. i m so glad you re taking it
is the nature of compromise. neil: if they can get to that the tea party fought hard to make the big changes on capitol hill but is the payroll tax compromise a step backwards for the movement, the kind stuff i raised with senator demint. we ask tea party patriots out with a book, fascinating look at the emergence of a revolution the second american revolution. welcome, guys. i think a lost tea party has to be upset. guest: absolutely. are we beginning to continue the tax holiday which is becoming a tax rate, just like we have seen with the bush tax rates. and they are not talking at all about where they will cut. they could cut the hundred billion the gao suggested with the duplicating of services paying for the tax holiday. neil: but some argue they caved. do you thing they did?
let s bring in senator bob casey of pennsylvania. he is the chairman of the joint economic committee. he helped come up with the two-month payroll tax compromise. obviously you are dissatisfied that the house has not taken up that senate measure but is there blame enough on both sides to go around? well, jon, i think there is a very simple solution here. we have a piece of legislation that went through the senate, got 89 votes. democrats and republicans coming together to say very simply in a very pared down bill that we re going to extend the payroll tax cut for 160 million americans for two months. also has unemployment insurance for that same time period. so we came to an agreement on a very simple bill. got 89 votes for it. if the house passes that bill today or tomorrow, this whole, this whole problem would go away. i think the house would be a lot better off, and i think speaker boehner in his caucus would be a lot better
let s go out front. i m erin burnett. breaking news, federal failure. gridlock reigns in washington once again. the payroll tax cut proposal passes the republican house. so why do we say failure? well, the republican bill included a controversial oil pipeline that the president has said he would veto. so pass, smash. we re at square one with congress playing chicken with the clock. there are just 18 days left until the tax cut expires. if it does, the average american will pay about a thousand dollars more in taxes next year. now, this may not be economic armageddon. but because the tax cut is popular for everyone, both parties want to pass it. so why are they failing? the bottom line, in one afternoon we found a way to compromise and get this done with the help of robert and williams at the nonpartisan tax policy center. here goes, what we call a decent proposal. if you extended the payroll tax cut for only people making under $75,000 a year, the price tag would be about $
i m erin burnett. outfront, breaking news, federal failure. gridlock reigns in washington once again. now the payroll tax cut proposal passes the republican house. so why do we say failure? well, the republican bill, included a controversial oil pipeline that the president has said he would veto. so, pass, smash. we re at square one. congress again playing chicken with the clock. there are just 18 days left until the tax cut expires. if it does, the average american will pay about a thousand dollars more in taxes next year. now, this may not be economic armageddon. but because the tax cut is popular for everyone, both parties want to pass it. so why are they failing? the bottom line, in one afternoon we found a way to compromise and get this done with the help of robert and williams at the nonpartisan tax policy center. here goes, what we call a decent proposal. if you extended the payroll tax cut for only people making under $75,000 a year, the price tag would be about $48