The House of Representative by a vote of 152-4 approved and sent to the Senate a bill that would ban junk food in schools and require new and healthy nutritional standards to be developed for food sold in all school cafeterias and vending machines.

The Senate rejected a proposed comission to tackle the deficit, largely because it would have required Congress to either completely accept or reject its recommendations without the ability to make changes. President Obama has issued an executive order to create something similiar, however. The Senate did accept pay-as-you-go limits on federal spending and to raise the debt ceiling without a single Republican vote on either. The Senate also confirmed (with a bipartisan mix of votes) Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

As for health care reform? Who the hell knows.