Is congress helping?

• According to a new report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, the health bill passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve will increase national health spending by $222 billion over current law.
• The latest CBS News poll shows that just 36% of Americans approve of President Obama's handling of health care, while 54% disapprove.
• According to Rasmussen Reports, 58% of voters disapprove of the Obama administration's bailout of GM and Chrysler, and 56% disapprove of bailing-out banks and other financial institutions.
• Twenty Democratic House members, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) along with related staff took a tax-payer funded trip to the failed Copenhagen Climate Summit, including the use of three military jets: two 737s and a Gulfstream Five.
• Seeking to repair Venezuela's floundering economy, strongman Hugo Chavez threw his country into chaos by devaluing the Bolivar by half.