chats. the house speaker continue. reporter: thank you. john boehner came out and said that house republicans, they oppose the two-month extension over the weekend because it doesn t provide the certainly that americans need, the kind of stimulate the economy in the way that the payroll tax extension they would hope would do. so he made it very clear that they are not ready to budge from their decision. he says they have acted and now it s time for the president and senate democrats to do the same. i think we have a sound bite from speaker boehner. now it s up to the president to show real leadership. he said that he won t leave town for the holidays until this bill is done. and the next step is clear. i think president obama needs to call on senate democrats to go back into session, move to go to conference, and to sit down and resolve this bill as quickly as possible. reporter: in the absolute immediate term, we know that the senators are not here right now and th