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We're looking at. >> that's exactly what it is, it takes the last four weeks and averages it. take a look at that line and i want to show you something. when you come back to us, here's the exact same chart, the same chart you were looking at before, here it is, but here's what's important. see that end? that's where we are now. after that what happens when i flip this over. know what this is? this is the recession, the dip, the economic dip, and a lot of the economists are calling for double-dip? take a look. this number goes down here, that means initial jobless claims are going up. there's ...

Basket room walls. senator jm and tom coburn put together a list saying it shows the biggest questionable projects to come out of president obama's $862 billion stimulus plan. among the top ten, $89,000 to replace a new sidewalk if oklahoma with a newer one that leads to the same ditch that the first one did. number six, $1.9 million to study ants in east africa and the southwest indian ocean islands. coming in at number one -- $554,000 to replace the windows at a shuttered mount st. helen's visitor center. efforts to build a community

Biologists hope to relocate 7b 70 to 80,000 eggs during the turtle season through september. to money and politics now. two republican senators take aim at president obama's $862 billion stimulus plan. in a news conference last hour, senators john mccain and tom coburn listed what they call the 100 worst stimulus projects. this is their third such list. coburn says the focus is on projects that don't give taxpayers their money's worth. >> there is no question, the stimulus bill has had a positive effect on the economy to a certain degree. and what our criticism is, it could have had a far gr...

Jobs, but the republicans say that there are also examples of waste. >> reporter: $1.9 million to capture, analyze and photograph exotic ants. more than $700,000 to develop a computerized dance program in north carolina and nearly half a million for smokers to receive a smartphone to help kick the habit, and almost $700,000 to figure out why mon dees respond the way they do when something is unfair. some of the stimulus projects were republican senators john mccain, and tom coburn say were wasting money. >> what the american people would like to see is oversight. where we are actually doing ou...

>> if they can't afford to give a tax cut, can they afford the slowest growing economy of the past 20 years? it becomes a political calculation when the 2012 elections are brought in to play. what would the president rather run? budget deficit cut in half or economy with half the jobless rate? bret? >> glenn: wendell goler live on the north lawn. thank you. congressional republicans will try to tie the democratic opponents this fall to a stimulus package they say was filled with the wasteful projects. chief washington correspondent jim angle has that part of the story. >> two republican senato...