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>> reporter: with today's vote, lu becomes the first of president obama's judicial nominees to fail. >> this will not go down easy. >> reporter: with that last remark, democratic senator barbara boxer signaled the water of the senate confirmation hearings still poisoned after 20 years after the robert bjork hearings may become more poisonous. >> bret: thank you. the department of homeland security notified 30 cities across the country they are about to lose anti-terror funding from the federal government. the department says it was scrapped as part of the federal budget cut. only 31 high-threa...

Absolutely the senator is correct that we need to confront questions like even title -plts and larger spending programs, that has to be done, but we are not going to be able to do entitlement reform unless the president and the democratic leadership steps up and participates and they've rejected that. the one thing that we can do and must do is reduce this wildly increasing discretionary spending as i just mentioned, education, transportation, energy are all receiving double-digit increase. jon: so much to talk about. i want to turn your attention right now to the president's nominee to the ni...

Being grounded today across europe because of ash from that erupting volcano in iceland that we can't pronounce. on capitol hill, the judiciary committee is holding a hearing on a controversial court nominee, goodwin lu's nomination will be a test of whether republicans can view a presidential court pick they view as far too liberal. today is the last day to mail back your 2010 census form. if you don't send it in, you can expect a knock on your door. census workers lit the street the starting may 1st to chase people down who didn't mail in their form. wall street, a week saw the dow cross 11,...

Supreme court. he's a 39-year-old professor at the university of california berkeley. and if confirmed, he'd be the only asian american currently on the appeals court. but republicans are expressing concern about his statements in support of same-sex marriage and affirmative action. our congressional correspondent brianna keilar has more on today's hearings. how did it go? >> this is a very tough hearing, wolf. goodwin lu very much on the hot seat. republicans have issues with him for many different reasons but the big one has to do with something he said four years ago. this was goodwin lu in...

It seems unlikely. >> the democratic party is not the party of truman, kennedy, or jackson or even fdr. >> they is similar criticisms of the entrenched republicans. given the tendency to skepticism, they may be of the toughest 2012 caucus votes to collect. steve brown, fox news. >> a washington state man has been charged threatening to kill democratic senator patty murray over her support for healthcare reform. charles wilson was arrested in yakima today and the f.b.i. says he left threatening messages on her office voice mail and were traced to wilson's home. republicans on the senate judicia...