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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...

Today, republican senators tom coburn and john mccain will unveil a ynew report detailing stimulus projects that are costing jobs and hurting small businesses. one of the projects detailed in the report, the academy of sciences giving nearly $1 million to research exotic ants. another report, more than $70,000 going to wake forest university to research the effect that cocaine has on monkeys and those are your headlines. we reported that one about the cocaine with monkeys, right? >> it's about time, somebody needs to study it clearly. >> i think we were talking about the extra -- >> $20 millio...

And community development proje projects, and those, too, will start to wind down soon and what we are left with is a mountain of debt to put a drag on the economy and not a boost. >> reporter: now the vice president's office which is overseeing the stimulus plan defended the program noting that the examples given by the two senators account for 25% of 1% of all of the money spent on all stimulus projects. >> wolf? >> thank you, lisa. and in "the situation room" right now, breaking news, bp begins the critical attempt to plug up the blown out well in the gulf of mexico. they are pumping mud ...

Unemployment. mccain and senator coburn detailed 300 wasteful stimulus projects. >> what the american people have done is awakened to the incompetency of washington. >> point to projects poorly inconceived or planned or mismanaged. for instance, $545,000 for new windows for visitor center at mount st. helens in washington state. the center has been closed for two years and no plans to reopen it. $2 million to send researchers to the indian ocean and east africa to capture, photograph and analyze thousands of ants. scientifically interesting perhaps, but not a big job creator. restoring the dry...

For what americans make. it goes back to the currency issue with china. the oil deficit. the president running around encouraging factories at very high costs that, you know, employ 300 more people to make batteries doesn't do a whole lot to deal with the energy deficit. there are things we could do on both those scores but the president doesn't like the answers. >> like what? >> we have a lot of onshore natural gas we're not using and build out the natural gas pipeline in new england. we could do more with wind mills off shore in the northeast. things of that nature. with regard to china, if ...