Romney sidesteps tax dispute; Gingrich dives in

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Mitt Rom­ney refused to be pinned down Wednes­day on how Con­gress should break an impasse that threat­ens to raise taxes for 160 mil­lion work­ers — the lat­est press­ing pol­icy debate the Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial hope­ful has side­stepped. Rival Newt Gin­grich, in con­trast, cas­ti­gated Con­gress for “an absurd dere­lic­tion of duty.”