. >> several republican leaders were on hand con lousily absent were nancy pelosi and terry reid. the house just passed the bill late last night. the senate could make history tomorrow and vote to end the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. their appears to be enough votes to pass a bill that would allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. the vote was blocked by republicans who wanted tax cuts passed first. they plan to lobby senators to the last minute. >>> a new batch ofless numbers today -- jobless numbers today. the rate held steady in november, exactly where it's been for four months. 1600 jobs were created last month. there may be hope in the numbers. >> reporter: at jcm, the equipment is running 24 hours a day as workers turn out machine components for the medical sector military computer industry. >> we have picked up in the last 12 months and hired approximately 20 employees over the last 12 months. >> kristy, a single mother of four was hired six weeks ago through a temp agency after a long job search: >> applied for over 1,000 jobs, finally he cam

. >> several republican leaders were on hand con lousily absent were nancy pelosi and terry reid. the house just passed the bill late last night. the senate could make history tomorrow and vote to end the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. their appears to be enough votes to pass a bill that would allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. the vote was blocked by republicans who wanted tax cuts passed first. they plan to lobby senators to the last minute. >>> a new batch ofless numbers today -- jobless numbers today. the rate held steady in november, exactly where it's been for four months. 1600 jobs were created last month. there may be hope in the numbers. >> reporter: at jcm, the equipment is running 24 hours a day as workers turn out machine components for the medical sector military computer industry. >> we have picked up in the last 12 months and hired approximately 20 employees over the last 12 months. >> kristy, a single mother of four was hired six weeks ago through a temp agency after a long job search: >> applied for over 1,000 jobs, finally he cam

terry garr it was raquel welch. >> interesting. >> last night the tax bill passes. harry reidull a 1.1 trillion spending bill. what's going on? >> i thought it was interesting. i thought drama might build more. the president came out after the election and said he regretted passing omnibus spending bills that had all the earmarks, banning earmarks was one of the hot things to come out of the election of the president wanted to co-op the issue, said, sure, i'm for the ban as well. let's keep the pressure on the republicans. let's have them live up to their fiscal responsibility. this put him in an awkward position. you know what the questions were, wait a minute. i thought you regretted that. you're going to pass the bill? when does the new obama show up. if there's a course correction we've seen it. now, is there a tax bill? this spending bill got curbed. look at all the outreach the president has done, particularly the business community. this week meeting with bill clinton, gates, buffet. some things to demonstrate. >> the meeting with jamie diamond, an important sign for wa