Even as negotiation breakthroughs in the House (and perhaps the Senate Finance Committee) accelerate chances for a bill, the new NBC/WSJ poll says:
Support for President Barack Obama's health-care effort slipped substantially over the past five weeks -- particularly among those who already have insurance -- as Congress has struggled to finalize legislation and attention has focused on its high price, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.
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This is BIG news as it’ll ensure that a lot more people participate.
From Des Moines Register:
Sources from both the Iowa Democratic Party and Republican Party of Iowa say they are getting ready to jointly announce a date for the 2010 Iowa caucuses. For the first time, they’ll be held on a Saturday afternoon in January. (editor’s note: Jan. 23 at 1 p.m.)
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This shouldn’t even surprise anyone anymore:
A Singapore law professor who was to teach a human rights course at New York University Law School this fall has withdrawn after students protested what they called her anti-gay views. Thio Li-ann, a professor at the National University of Singapore who is also a member of her country’s Parliament, had opposed the repeal of a law in the penal code — known as Section 377A — that criminalizes sex between men.
Washington Post | Federal regulators moved closer on Tuesday to issuing new rules to limit oil speculation, addressing concerns that Wall Street firms may have manipulated the price of oil through financial trading.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission held the first of three hearings to explore ways to keep financial firms from amassing such large positions in energy markets that they have outsized power to affect prices.
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