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Office has released a new stimulus scorecard. its independent analysis finds that the administrations commitments will cost $27 billion more than expected for a total of $814 billion. the program continues to boost economic growth. its also saved or created as many as 3.3 million jobs from april to june of this year. federal safety officials have opened an investigation into older models of the popular jeep grand cherokee. a consumer group asked the agency to determine whether its gas tank too...

I think the bigger problem you alluded to by noting that hamas has rejected these talks, the fact is, that there is no one who can speak author tatively on behalf of the palestinian people. and, that means no one who can make the hard concessions and commitments that would be necessary for any palestinian-israeli peace -- or carry through on them in the years ahead. that, alone, leaving everything else aside, that alone dooms the talks to failure. >> eric: you have the situation where they have ...

Saying. weve made some national commitments to our grandkids. weve done it in yellowstone national park. glacier, rainier and in the arctic refuge. a republican, teddy roosevelt started this at the pelican refuge and weve never violated that commitment this is a special place. weve made a commitment this is during the eisenhower administration, we made a decision we were going to make a commitment to our grandchildren we were going to preserve this relatively small space the way the creator desi...

Saying. weve made some national commitments to our grandkids. weve done it in yellowstone national park. glacier, rainier and in the arctic refuge. a republican, teddy roosevelt started this at the pelican refuge and weve never violated that commitment this is a special place. weve made a commitment this is during the eisenhower administration, we made a decision we were going to make a commitment to our grandchildren we were going to preserve this relatively small space the way the creator desi...

Weve worked with everybody. weave never refus weve never refused an offer. last year, the port authority broke off the conversation with us and the controversy, actually surrounding the mosque near the world trade center seems to have elevated the issue of st. nicholas to the public consciousness again. >> the question is why it has taken so long and why it hasnt been rebuilt. let us read to the viewers a statement from the port authority. st. nicholas orthodox church has always had and will con...

Big swath of pakistan from the top to the bottom. if people were to donate money, are we fairly certain it can get to the places that need the help? i ask you this because -- were you in pakistan after the earthquake the last time -- >> i was. >> you have some sense of it. >> right. and there was also huge challenges in 2005. were talking in 2005 earthquake of a really mountainous train in the himalayas that was hard to reach as well. because of the destruction weve seen with roads washed out an...

Directly to the people along the gulf coast. because its the men and women of this region who have felt the burden of this disaster. theyve watched with anger and dismay as their livelihoods and way of life has been threatened these past few months. thats why i made a commitment here in my visit that i would stand here not just till the well was closed and the oil was cleaned up, but until you have fully recovered from the damage thats been done, and that is a commitment that my administration i...

Trim benefits, raising taxes a little bit, raising retirement age, and put it all together and you can make it work. there is a danger to go back to glorias point that in this campaign if the two sides get their backs up over social security in the campaign theyll back themselves into commitments as senators and congressmen coming into the next year that theyll promise not to touch social security, to defend social security as it is. you do that you cant get the deficits under control. >> this i...

Bps failure to live up to its commitments. the companies complain that bp repeatedly changed boom specifications and abruptly canceled or refused to accept ord oers once the flow of oil was slowed. leaving companies with mountains of boom and years worth of vinyl. >> they misled my company and they misled a lot of the other parties that we were dealing with. >> reporter: ben says that bp repeatedly told his chicago company to make the boom and bp would buy it. but the promised order never came a...

>> shepard: happy birthday congressmen rangle. his birthday was in june but the birthday party is tonight and the guest list is getting shorter. the democratic representative from new york is in a ethics investigation and facing a public trashing in congress. he had his say yesterday. that was fun. tonight congressmen rangle is holding a late celebration at the plaza hotel. so far three local politicians are not going to make it because they have other commitments, which is like quitting your jo...