Congress leaves town with an uneasy stalemate and looming payroll tax hike

The House is gone, mostly. The Senate vows not to return. And President Obama is home in Washington while his family vacations in Hawaii, hoping for some kind of agreement between the two that he can sign.

That was the uneasy state of play in Washington Tuesday after a year of acrimony and stalemate came to a head on Capitol Hill, leaving millions of American workers facing a tax hike in two weeks.

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Rosalind S. Helderman, Paul Kane 21 Dec, 2011


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