congressman jim mcdermott and michelle cottle. thank you both for your time this evening. >> thanks, rev. >>> coming up, president obama takes action on fairness for women in the work place. is the gop really against equal pay for equal work? and a gop congressman tries to go after attorney general holder and it doesn't go well for him. >> i realize that contempt is not a big deal to our attorney general, but it is important that we have proper oversight. >> you don't want to go there, okay? >> i don't want to go there? >> no. >> and later tonight, i'll address some of the stories about the mob, the music industry and me. stay tuned. >> women get paid less for equal work. that should be made fair, right? that's not what the republicans in congress say. that's next. any projects on my home. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. ♪ i ♪ and i got the tools ira ♪ to do it my way ♪ i got

joining me now are congressman jim mcdermott, democrat of washington, and "washington pos post"'s nia-malika henderson. thank you both for being here. >> thanks, rest. >> good evening. >> are your republican colleagues having a hard time accepting reality here? >> they are really apoplectic at this point. they don't know what to do. it turned out exactly as ms. sebelius predicted, and they don't know how to deal with success. they have lost and they can't admit it. so they keep throwing all kinds of crazy ideas against the wall, hoping something will stick. but i'll tell you what's going to happen. they're ultimately going to admit they failed, and they're going to pivot and start to say they're here to help fix it. and they're going to try and love it to death. that's going to be their next trick. >> nia-malika, the republicans are trying -- they're just tying themselves up, really. in all kinds of knots, trying to say they don't like the health care law and this and that about the health care law. but they do like what is in it. listen to this. >> let's start with the idea that preexisting

will talk to jim mcdermott of washington. joins us to talk about the gop budget and the health care law. later, tim murphy of pennsylvania on the gm recall controversy and his new bill, which aims to increase mental health care services. we will be right back. ♪ >> without objection. peoplespeaker, let our go. the speaker in this house has been over backwards. we passed to balance budget plans, appropriation bills. firstesident vetoed the balanced budget plan and a generation. he vetoed the interior bill and the bills that would get funding for veterans affairs, for hud, the empire mental protection agency. this is the do-nothing president. his people are telling him do-nothing. stand in the road, block ght a balanced budget at all costs. that is what you need to do. be firm. will go up.ints maybe they will. i do not care if his poll points go up or not. we have put on the table the first balanced budget in a generation and if the president wants to continue standing in the way of that, fine. we are going to balance this budg

host: jim mcdermott back at our tables this morning. he helped republicans unveil their budget yesterday. plan ton laid out a save 5 trillion over the next decade. what do you like about this proposal? [laughter] that is an interesting place to start. the fact that he put his philosophy out there so people could see who he is -- he is somebody that has himself on track to become a presidential candidate and he wants people to like him and support him. it is good for him to put something like that out there. we have a fix on where he starts from. i think most of the things in there, you would have to concede, are not going to get through the senate. it is good for him to put it out there and say this is what i believe. host: you did not answer the question. anything you like about it? guest: frankly, no. that you cannot find additional revenue to deal with some of the problems we face, that is the end of this country's continuance in leadership in the world. we leave and health care research, we are cutting the national institutes of hea

coming up this hour, we will talk with washington state conversely jim mcdermott about the house republican budget proposal which includes cuts to the obama administration's health-care law. pennsylvania congressman tim murphy on the need to improve the mental health care system. later, johns hopkins professor discusses the current state of cuba and possible political changes in the country's future. and we will also take your calls on yesterday's supreme court campaign-finance decision. and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. good morning. welcome to the washington journal. an investigation has revealed that the u.s. government created a cuban twitter. a network designed to undermine the communist government in cuba. in fivesecond time years, an active-duty soldier is to have gone on a shooting spree in fort hood, texas. he killed three and injured 16 others. cost decisionurt to lift spending caps on political giving. we will begin their with your take on