republicans 202-737-0001, our independent line is 202-628- 0205. a good friday morning to you. for a quick review of some of the big stories coming out of this town, here are some of the headlines we have been watching here at c-span. for to vall, three days of oral arguments on the health care challenge. on capitol hill, the house gop passed its 2013 budget along party lines. also, a standstill over the transportation bill with the 90- day extension of it. president obama came back from south korea where he made headlines. yet today, he spoke about oil subsidies. on the campaign trail, mitt romney getting closer to the nomination. he secured the endorsement. we will talk about those later. mr. gingrich reorganized his campaign and made headlines over his comments about janitors and the work they do in washington, d.c. we are going to ask you which story you are following. help us out by not running through all of them. pick something that is of particular interest to you. gi
cain. the national restaurant association saying it plans to respond to a document written by one of cain s accusers. most recent reports say one woman was given $45,000 as part of her settlement. from occupying wall street to occupying a jail cell. you re looking at yet another group of protesters being arrested in downtown manhattan. this time, police busted 17 occupyers trespassing outside the headquarters for goldman-sachs. nearly 80 protesters had their day in court yesterday. prosecutors offered to drop charges against them. nine accepted. the rest are pushing for trials all at the taxpayers expense. well, the government, about 2 1/2 hours away from releasing brand new jobless numbers for the month of october and don t expect those unemployment lines to get any shorter. economists predicting only 95,000 jobs were added last month. that would leave the unemployment rate right where it is right now at 9.1%. more than 200,000 jobs would need to be created to bring that ra