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November 2009. >> it is another short term fix with one week to go the democratic controlled senate has passed a stopgap bill to keep the government running through the end of the fiscal year. as the measure provide $982 billion. the bill lost in the $85 billion of federal spending cuts that went into effect at the beginning of this month. the house is expected to approve the bill. it could vote as soon as today. >> there's a startling new figure out that shows at least 1 million children in the united states are autistic. do grandfathers play a role in that? according to a new swedish study t...

Expected to sign it into law. while it legalizes civil unions colorado's constitution says marriage can only be between a man and a woman. turning now to your money. hank greenberg, former head of aig, you remember aig? well, mr. greenberg is doubling the size of his lawsuit against the government and oh, by the way, you the taxpayer, to $55 billion. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. remind us again why taxpayers might be a little outraged at this. >> first of all, hank greenberg is kind of a persistent guy with even lawmakers in the past calling him somebody who's got a lot of...

Come to a specific plan to deal with the budget or entitlements, but just a chance to begin a little discussion. you see senator john mccain there with a thumbs up as he came out last night. some senators at the dinner expressed hope for a grand bargain to prevent the continuing budget crisis. to prevent it, i should say. it's still a long way off. last night the house easily passed a $982 billion short-term bill to gund the fovt through september. most of the no votes coming from democrats who criticized the plan for keeping in place the automatic spending cuts. the sequester. meanwhile, hous...

General and they do individual analysis of the departments, right. >> they're criminal investors and primarily look the at waste and fraud from a criminal standpoint, but of course along the way they find lots of money and that's really what they do. about 12,000 men and women, about a 2 billion dollar budget throughout all of government, but they are the nonpartisans that are working for you within government. >> greta: they've identified 67 billion dollars at least pretty easily of waste? >> these are the ones that have not been responded to. the fact is some of them go back three, four year...

Viewer, ig is inspector general and they do individual analysis of the departments, right. >> they're criminal investors and primarily look the at waste and fraud from a criminal standpoint, but of course along the way they find lots of money and that's really what they do. about 12,000 men and women, about a 2 billion dollar budget throughout all of government, but they are the nonpartisans that are working for you within government. >> greta: they've identified 67 billion dollars at least pretty easily of waste? >> these are the ones that have not been responded to. the fact is some of them ...