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Jon: house minority leader nancy pelosi and other top democrats getting set to push the paycheck fairness act today. chief national correspondent jim angle it live in washington with more on that. what is the paycheck fairness act jim? >> reporter: jon, it would allow women to force employers to disclose what other workers are making then sue if they arent making the same pay for the same work. oddly enough president obama said he solved the question of equal pay when he signed an earlier bill i...

Does not explain that many women work fewer hours, take different kinds of jobs, or decline to travel, for instance, in order to bear and care for their children. listen: >> you cant legislate equal pay. what you can do is encourage -- is teach both sexes the issue is not about discrimination, that the issue is about the choices that fathers and mothers make when children come. >> reporter: now jon, some research even shows that women college graduates who have not had children actually make mor...

Spending and he argued that that was one of the trade markings was his president so. in washington, jim angle fox newings. >> it is a week of space history making. new land mark above the earth. astronauts are now taking a step that could have a huge impact on future missions . >> is there life out there somewhere on other planets. deproge effort to seek out intelligent life in addition to our own. you can join the search. ♪ ♪ ♪ somewhere out ♪ that find one another. ♪ ♪ n. so at&t s...

>> i am calling or congress to extend the tax credit set to expire forto the end of the year for the clean energy companies. >> mr. obama wants to increase federal spending by ample of 4-1/2% a year. the budget for the coming year which was defeated in the senate 99-0 would have driven debt higher. mr. increase debt from 15 to $20 trillion. go up against by 25%. >> the president argued against aweer thety. but now he seems to be arguing that is a trademark of his presidency. bret? >> fact checki...

People at no time productive enough. our productivity is higher than its ever been. you have been worker harder than ever. >> he has never had job in the free economy. american people understand that the free economy and free enterprise is tough, hardwork. when they hear a business like bain capital was successful 80% of the time and 5% of its investments only went bankrupt they say that is a good recor record. >> bret: president obama and governor romney on the campaign trail back and forth ove...

>> reporter: interesting tone for the lawmakers not going after director sullivan, not blasting him, if you will, but certainly blasting the behavior on that trip in columbia, jon. jon: i would not want to be that director right now testifying in front of that committee. mike emanuel, thank you. and jenna well be talking -- go ahead. jenna: thats okay. i will be talking with senator lieberman coming up a little later on. we have a lot of questions with him including what is happening with iran a...

Correspondent jim angle is live in washington with more on that for us. >> reporter: the congressional budget office has a fresh analysis of the impact of what many call tax maggedon, the simultaneous expiration of $500 billion in annual tax cuts that will take affect at the end of the year along with some spending cuts as you mentioned. cbo says if no action is taken to keep that from happening that will put the brakes on the economy forcing it to shrink by 1.3% in the first half of next year. ...

Communication is excellent. >> some say the president cant get much done in an election year, but some things have to get done. its just not clear how much the president can to influence what happens. bret? >> jim, thank you. stocks were nearly unchanged today. the dow lost two. s&p 500 added less than a point. the nasdaq closed eight behind. sales of previously owned homes kicked up 3.4% in april. vice president comparison of private equity experience to plumbing. governor romneys business ex...

Jim angle is on it live tonight on capitol hill. >> the obama administration exempts only catholic churches not schools hospitals or charities from the requirement to offer insurance including contraception including drugs that induce abortion which are, of course, against catholic teachings, catholic groups are are beseeching the courts to protect them. >> the ability of religious institution to practice what it preaches and to not be compelled by the government. >> at issue is the hhs definiti...

Continue to try to solve our deficit problem on the backs of our military, our troops, whos going to have our backs the next time were attacked? over my lifetime we have cut back the military after every war. this is the first time ive seen us cut back during the war. >> reporter: we should know the outcome of the overall bill sometime later this hour. jenna? jenna: well look forward to that, mike, and come back to you. thank you very much, mike emanuel in d.c. jon: energy in america looking at ...