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The president vowing it will make it through the senate and he will sign it and become law, jon. >> jon: he did sound positive at the rose garden ceremony got underway. john roberts in new york city. let's bring in chad pergren. they must be breathing a sigh of relief. >> yes, it was a tight vote. had it gone down to 215-215 it would have been a tie and not pass. when they pass the final version, they could lose four. this was tighter this time. so the question is the united states senate. one of the things that house members that were reluctant to vote for this bill, they said

Green, one of the members of that subcommittee, which came out with the alleged violations, recommended that rangel be reprimanded. a reprimand is one of the three forms of discipline, the other is censure and expulsion. they don't reprimand members around here often. probably the closest they came was congressman bill wilson in south carolina who shouted out at the president during the health care speech last september. they did punish him but it was a lower leveled, not prescribed punishment. you can make them stand in the corner or send them home out supper but the three formal forms are ce...

Chrysler, 60 percent of general motors still to this day as we're waiting to see if some of these companies will repay the government in their entirety. they did prepay some of the cash loans but not necessarililthe equity, so that means the government is still involved in these companies, although the president has said, with a hands-off approach. so we'll continue to monitor the situation in detroit. meantime we have to get back to washington, d.c. where there's a lot of action happening now. jon: and this fox news alert, what will happen to congressman charlie rangel, a 40-year veteran of t...

That's a concern for police, because in recent months we've had a number of protest, but they've all been fairly well coordinated. police know where they're going to be, if they have permits they can put barriers up and have a police presence. well, now, police aren't sure where these protests are going to -- are going to generate and where they're going to be, so that's a problem because they don't know what the motive is, where they're going to be, they're spread thin and we're watching what unfolds in phoenix. >> and sheriff joe arpaio weighing n. saying he is getting word that protestors a...