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Mike, this is something that we've seen over the past few months and the president going out there and getting in front of these projects to kind of show people what is going on. >> with that stimulus package $787 billion worth that proved to be so controversial. the president is en route to that site and the 10,000th road project to begin and he is coming to ohio for the eighth time and we go to north carolina, we go to ohio and we go to pennsylvania and we go to other states that are swing states in the giant electoral map across the country and no mistake coming into november. on how effect...

Exploretary well exploded and set in motion the massive oil spill threatening the entire gulf of mexico, the interior department exempted the oil company from intense regulatory scrutiny. they were granted what is known as categorical exemption from the minimal management service which reports to the interior secretary ken salazar. that means the exploratory drilling process and plans to deal with a spill if one should occur evaded several environmental reviews. >> they cut corners and went straight to drilling the other activities and didn't even take a look at some of the mitigation and reme...

>> reporter: before the exploretary well exploded and set in motion the massive oil spill threatening the entire gulf of mexico, the interior department exempted the oil company from intense regulatory scrutiny. they were granted what is known as categorical exemption from the minimal management service which reports to the interior secretary ken salazar. that means the exploratory drilling process and plans to deal with a spill if one should occur evaded several environmental reviews. >> they cut corners and went straight to drilling the other activities and didn't even take a look at some of...

What they're getting. they also have $500 million they're talking about for construction out of stimulus funds to build and modernize buildings and we do have a big picture on that. nationally, the education department has gotten basically $100 billion out of stimulus. by far, more than those road projects and you heard about shovel ready. >> by far the education department is grabbing $100 billion total, 98.3, 71 billion was awarded so far. the education department tells me 300,000 jobs have already been funded and we're hearing from folks right there at cnn.com/josh, facebook and twitter, jo...

Ethics committee completes its work. >> among other things, rangel is accused of failing to pay taxes on a home in the dominican republic and violating gift rules related to conferences he attended in the caribbean. oh, my, what a photo. the ways and means committee drafts the nation's tax policies. senator jim bunning blinks, and lawmakers pass a bill to extend jobless benefits. the republican from kentucky held up the bill for days, while pushing the senate to come up with a way to pay for it. he relented last night, and senators approved the $10 billion emergency spending measure. it exte...