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BREAKING: House Republicans have agreed to the payroll tax cut deal.

While House Republicans continue their efforts to avoid voting on the Senate's extension of the payroll tax bill, this afternoon President Obama urged the House to listen to voices across the country and reconsider—because American families nationwide are counting on this tax cut. For a family making about $50,000 a year, it amounts to about $1,000 per year. That's about $40 per paycheck for the average American family.

While Speaker John Boehner and Republican leaders gathered for a photo op this morning, Democratic Minority Whip Steny Hoyer asked for a vote on the Senate's compromise bill. What did Republicans do? They ignored him, and the fill-in speaker literally walked away.

Who's to blame for the payroll tax cut impasse? 94 percent say Speaker Boehner.

In interviews this morning, Mitt Romney—who is rumored to be running for president—refused to weigh in on the House GOP’s payroll tax cut debacle, where they voted to raise taxes on 160 million American people five days before Christmas.

This afternoon, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz took to the floor of the House of Representatives to speak in firm opposition to the Republicans' plan not to vote on the Senate's two-month payroll tax extension bill and instead play politics with people's livelihoods.

Because of a massive lobbying effort by the frozen pizza industry, House Republicans are pushing legislation this week that would classify pizza as a ''vegetable'' in school lunches.

We're inviting faith leaders to share portions of a letter DNC faith outreach director Rev. Derrick Harkins has written—in both English and Spanish translations—with their congregants to shed light on what promises to be a genuine threat to democracy: voter suppression legislation.