one of those na tendance at the white house today in the east room is senator sander levin, ranking member on the house ways and means committee. here's his tweet after the passage in the senate. host: another view from republican congressman tim huelskamp from kansas. kathleen is in lancaster, california, on our democrats' line. go ahead. caller: hi. same thing in lancaster, california, it's not a big city. it's a real small city near l.a. same thing, going out looking for work. i do go look for work and everybody, and some of the companies, you're too old, you're 57. you got too much experience. they don't want to hire people that have a lot of experience. they want to hire younger people, they said, to move people into what they want. host: what's your field? caller: i can do cash shearing, i can do care giving. i could do anything. host: here's zelda, republican line in garden city, michigan. we just lost her. let's go to rockford, illinois, independent line. hello. caller: i just wanted to really thank president obama for being so compassionate and so sincere in the way he's talking t