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Similar to his predecessors. in 2009 the senate confirmed 353 of 569 major obama nominations compared with 360 out of 513 during bush's first year. they call the hold a time-honored tradition. >> it makes them powerful individually and it allow s the to stop things that they feel need to be adjusted and were wrong to start with. >> reporter: that's missouri senator kit bond's argument for his controversial hold. he says the general services administration is dragging its feet on moving 1,000 federal employees out of a dilapidated kansas city building so bond blocked martha johnson for gsa admi...

People back to work. rick santorum is a fox news contributor, and maria, welcome, let me go 20 u -- and were you disappointed in the senator's vote? >> no, the principal objection that republicans had on this bill was it didn't allow republicans to offer an amendment, that we wanted to bring a bill to the floor and have republican ideas be put forward. you know, i don't think a member from massachusetts can get you and say look, i didn't vote for it, not because i don't like what's in it because he obviously did like it and most republicans liked what was in it, but because -- martha: what did...

To know more, go to fox news, and we have everything you need to know about heart disease. bill: i like it, this stent, made of steel. a man of steel. thank you manny. >> you got it. martha: well, the latest on the stimulus bill out there right now, the one discussed, is president obama's $15 billion brand new jobs bill. now, the new senator from massachusetts, scott brown, shocked a lot of people yesterday when he voted yes for this jobs bill. talked a lot about fiscal responsibility when he was running up in massachusetts, but remember he is a senator from massachusetts. and he was not alone...

You quitting than why haven't you quit? >> all right. >> you're feeling good and great new members coming along and if we can just get more civil about the debate -- >> agreed. >> i've passed five bills in the last two years because i've worked with others and you find a partner. john ashcroft and i did travel on cuba and john and i didn't agree on much. orrin hatch and i did child care. kit bond and i family medical leave. you have to seek out -- bob corcoran and i are working on medical reform. >> you talk about anger in american politics and we do need to stop the apger and stop the anger w...

>> it sure does. i mean, if you look at it now, you could even say that larry saab bo is tech -- sabato is on the conservative side in terms of the estimates of republican victories because there's so many retirements, there are so many competitive seats that the democrats will have to hold, even to just maintain a 7-seat loss that larry sabato is talking about. bill here's what evan bayh is saying, no one is listening to the moderates, no one is listening to the independents. you and i have sat here for the past year and a half, we knew what america was talking about a year and a half ago, it...