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And right now, house republicans are pushing a new budget bill that guts the safety net even more. the bill includes $261 billion in cuts to social programs like health care, food stamps and unemployment benefits. tomorrow, the senate will vote on a measure to keep student loan interest rates from rising. a decision that would affect 7.4 million students. joining us now is sherrod brown. he was with president obama in ohio on saturday. thanks for coming on the show tonight. >> it was great seeing the president in front of 14,000, pretty enthusiastic ohioans. thanks. >> now the president went r...

Still dealing with fallout from those notorious white house crashers, the salahis who slipped in to the president's receiving line. strike two, strike three potentially for him. here's what the chair of the homeland security committee who has jurisdiction here, peter king had to say. >> my committee, we're going to look into all the details of what happened here, to see whether there should be changes in procedures. >> we'll have more on the secret service scandal later this hour. all right, congress is back in session today and on their immediate to do list is the budget and taxes. at least...

Fiscal house in order. a lot of them, that was how they got elected. no now they're looking at $261 billion in total, congress has already cut -- $61 billion in total, as i said, the number that's being pushed is in the $33 billion region right now to we'll see where we end up rick: the u.s. military is confronting a threat in its ranks. suicides. the alarming number of suicides in the military, and in the national guard has prompted some aggressive new programs and john roberts is live in atlanta with more on this. john. >> reporter: good morning to you rick. i've spent some time with the fam...

February and march, the jobs numbers were revised higher, 114,000. 332,000 jobs created in the month of february. it shows that democrats and republican politicians will say anything even if they know it's not true to get what they want. i wanted to point out in items of all the policy uncertainty in the last couple of years, vanguard ceo wrote an op-ed in the "wall street journal" that said $261 billion has been taken out of this economy because of uncertainty. that is $800 per person. so washington needs to do something wrong run, i don't know what will. >> neil: ben stein, there are a lot o...