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Led by senator coburn here, but a lot of families in their home states are looking for that lifeline that is unemployment benefits. >> they are looking for it and obviously these are tough times. what they're thinking, what tom coburn has said is that this is about the budget deficit. this is about congress committing to spend money and not raising money, not offsetting this in any way with a budget process. it speaks to a bigger issue, but for the white house, this is the kind of political obstructionism they're embracing. they enjoy talking about, but when it comes to politics and people's e...

That's his way of saying it doesn't look like we'll have a double dip. the other thing is if you look at 162,000 jobs, i'm all for the positive, but when you think that there have been more census jobs created as opposed to manufacturing jobs created, that brings you down a little bit. >> gretchen: it does, because those are people who are going to then not have a job potentially after five or six months. it also doesn't factor in all the people who stopped looking for a job because they got frustrated and so they're all still out there in that special pool of people who are not getting unempl...

F exceedingly feeble recovery. the unemployment rate is also the most sensitive political indicator and as long as it remains high republican prospects remain strong and the fact that the obama administration and congress led by the democrats spent so much time on the healthcare reform bill that was really not the public's priority will down to their discredit in this fall election. >> chris: 162,000 jobs were created. wall street forecasts were in the neighborhood of 250,000 jobs. and in fact you need about that many if you are really going to cut into the unemployment rate. so we are a long ...

Impose the $500 bill in taxes. i think you would see the stock market skyrocket the next day because business would know that taxes will be stable and they have the ability to raise capital and invest in their businesses. >> reporter: senator kyle said he thinks the economic stimulus package spent billions with very little effect. shannon, back to you. >> shannon: thank you very much. the u.s. economy added 162,000 jobs in march. that's significant, perhaps, but not enough to change the unemployment rate which she also noted stayed right at 9.7%. peter barnes is senior washington corresponde...

To go before the unemployment numbers are back down. in the meantime lawmakers weigh in on china as the white house cites critical issues with the country's commercial practices. how will this affect our economy? we're live in washington with the reaction from the sunday news magazine shows that have all the big guests. what are the president's key economic advisors saying this morning about getting the unemployment rate down and getting americans back to work? >> reporter: eric, we had ta tht report last week that we added 162,000 new jobs which is the best figure in three years but the unemp...