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Unlike Romney, Gingrich Weighs In On Payroll Tax Debate | While GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been unwilling to take a clear stance on the GOP’s strategy regarding the payroll tax extension debate, his rival, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, offered some support to House Republicans today in Iowa by saying Senate Democrats performed a “total dereliction of duty” when they extended the holiday for only two months. Still, Gingrich, said, “I have no idea how I would try to handle it if I was in John Boehner’s position.” In two TV interviews this morning and then again at a campaign stop, Romney wouldn’t say whether the House should approve the two month extension of the payroll tax holiday approved by the Senate. He dismissed the issue as an “internal battle,” “deep in the weeds,” and “sausage making.”