• Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform, the economy, and Obama’s Nobel Prize.
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform, the economy, and Obama’s Nobel Prize.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Fridays with Fugelsang.”
• President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize today for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.
• Buoyed by a new congressional report boosting President Obama’s prospects for overhauling the U.S. health care system, Senate leaders yesterday scheduled a key vote on the Senate Finance Committee’s legislation for Tuesday.
• The House voted yesterday to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation, significantly expanding the hate crimes law enacted in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968.
• The moon is due for a double whammy from two NASA probes today. One slammed the moon’s south pole this morning at 4:31am Pacific in a search for water ice buried in craters.
