A new Congressional Budget Office analysis estimates that the stimulus package created up to 2.4 million jobs in the third quarter of 2011. The analysis also concluded that 3.3 million jobs were added by the package in 2010.
Despite the fact that Tuesday's GOP debate was held in Washington, D.C., a city with a large African-American population, the crowd was predominantly white. The audience was made up of guests of conservative think tanks the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, which co-sponsored the debate with CNN.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh plans to sign a deal today in Saudi Arabia that could end of his 33-year rule of Yemen. The country has faced a sustained protest movement against Saleh as part of the Arab Spring uprisings. The vice president will step in temporarily until an election can be held and transitional government formed.
Occupy marchers who started in New York two weeks ago arrived in D.C. yesterday after a 230-mile journey. The marchers set out from Zuccotti Park to arrive in D.C. by Nov. 23, the official deadline of the congressional super committee that failed to reach a deficit agreement on Monday.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) “said the congressional supercommittee's failure Monday to come to an agreement on spending reforms was ‘good news' because it will help to end the Bush-era tax cuts and give Democrats more bargaining power in budget negotiations.â€