The new GOP agenda for the house if they take charge is called "A Pledge To America" and it's really a pledge to big oil. The “Pledge to America” was written with oversight from Brian Wild, a House staffer who was a lobbyist for some of the nation’s most powerful oil, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies. Wild, who is on House Minority Leader John Boehner’s payroll, lobbied for AIG, Exxon Mobil, Pfizer Inc., and the U.S.

Some key parts of the new health care law are kicking in next week. Insurers will no longer be able to cap the amount of care they will provide or deny coverage to sick children. Children will be able to stay on their parent's insurance until age 26 and we will have some more rights in appealing insurer's decisions.

• Guests:
  • Dan Gainor of the Business and Media Institute.
  • Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America (brother of Gov. Howard Dean).
  • Professor Lawrence Norden, Senior Counsel-Brennan Center's Democracy Program; Director-Brennan Center's Voting Technology Project - Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.
    

Quote of the Day: One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties. -- Pete Seeger