romney on the campaign trial with republican senator kelly ayot. she won judd gregg's senate seat after he retired from the senate. judd gregg was one of those who voted no on the fair pay act because there's no fair pay problem, right? when they got in trouble on this issue earlier, they put out kathy mcmorris rogers as mr. romney's female surrogate. she voted no on the fair pay act. mr. romney himself will not say whether he would have signed the fair pay act. that president obama signed. republican governor scott walker of wisconsin who mitt romney has been praising as a hero repealed the state-level version in wisconsin of the fair pay act. if you recognize that there's a problem with women getting paid less than men, a political party opposing or refusing to support policy to fix that problem seems like hostility toward women's interests. if you don't recognize there's a problem with women getting paid less than men, then policy debates about how to fix something that's not a problem don't seem that important to you. and so you downplay the im

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. >> another choice, kelly ayot was willing to address it. >> i have better experience than presidentas a senator and ran. >> for the democrats the choices are set or lots of useless signs are being made. >> there's no way out. i mean, they've already picked president obama. >> biden was less definitive when asked if he would run for president in 2016. >> ron paul still claims he's in the race for the republican no, ma'am -- nomination. >>> france has a new president this morning. he defeated the former president over the weekend. president obama called to con grand -- congratulate him and invite him to the white house. >>> the avengers score to a record setting weekend. fans lined up to see the flick which grossed more than $200 million in its debut weekend. that's the biggest opening ever. the avengers was relaesed internationally -- released internationally a week earlier. it's already brought in $640 million worldwide. >>> the winner of the kentucky derby will be in maryland today. i'll have another, he won saturday. the trainer, doug o'neil says the horse will fly to baltimore to

. >> reporter: another possible choice, kelly ayot was more willing to address it. >> i would say i have some would say better experience than barack obama had when he was a senator and ran. >> reporter: for the democrats the choices are set. lots of signs are being made. >> obama/biden. >> reporter: biden was less definitive when he was asked if he would run for the presidency in 2016. >> ron paul does not have any campaign events on the schedule. we'll bring you the latest on the candidate and the issues. >>> a nationwide alert for dog owners, your pet food could make you sick. the centers for disease controllers is investigating the sal salmonella outbreak. it's possible that they became sick after touching the food or handling dogs that ate it. >>> a governor task force is counseling parents about sun exposure in children. >> reporter: 14-year-old sabrina cohen spends most afternoons in the sun. whether she's playing on the water or out she's always wearing sunscreen. >> it's fun to be tanned and looks nice sometimes but it's really not worth it. >> reporter: counseling children on s

as we look at our budget and i have not had a chance to sit down with senator ayote yet about the budget, i am really anxious that everyone stays in the corral, said tuesday, until we're certain what the future is in guam. i don't want to waste one dime in guam until we get to reconsideration of the agreement to replace where it makes sense for the united states, for our military, and for the people of guam and japan. thank you for that. >> thank you, madam chair. i appreciate you raising that issue. i wanted to ask each of you and i raise this in my opening statement -- we know the defense sequestration is coming in january. if the congress does not fail to act to come up with other responsible budget savings. i am a strong advocate for us doing that. we have heard from each of the services as well as from our secretary of defense the devastating impact of defense sequestration including hollowing out our forces and the other consequences. i would like each of you to address timing. i am worried that there is a general feeling around here that we can kick this can until december to make