As expected, the House has passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite objections from the Obama administration. The bill allows private companies and the federal government to share information in order to prevent cyber-attacks. (You can read Adrian Chen's far more eloquent explanation here.)

You know why House Democrats despise Senate Democrats? Because they've passed 420 bills that the Senate has ignored. And they're all important: One names a post office for dead actor Jimmy Stewart. Can the Republic survive with such legislation tabled?

While Congress may have tackled the TV commercial loudness situation, it's punting pretty much everything else into the post-election lame duck session, when political pressures will supposedly be muted. The current tally of bills they'll consider? Oh, around 20.

They're banning the Lady Gaga song! No, sadly, just kidding. The state Assembly passed a bill making "'false imprisonment' by physically harassing someone else for photos or sound recordings" a lawsuit-worthy offense. They also passed ordinances on reckless paparazzi driving.

Marc Esparza, the young former dowtown day trader hit with a $172 million tax bill, tells the NYDN that (as suspected) the bill's a mistake, based on his lack of tax filings. Esparza is "hipster chillen'," they report. Okay.

New York Senator Chuck Schumer introduced a bill today that would require apparel companies to wait three years before copying the designs of high-end fashion labels. Forever 21 will soon be called Forever 24.

A $60 billion war bill has passed the Senate—$30 billion for Obama's surge

Fallon fulfilled his role as a late night host last night. He took something current that everyone was talking about, and incorporated it with something retro. Biden's swearing and school house rock work perfectly together.

President Obama just signed the health care reform bill! Can you believe he actually pulled this thing off? Now he can begin what will presumably be the generation-long effort to fix the damn thing.

On The Early Show, Senator Dodd applauds Harry Smith's recent televised colonoscopy, but he likens the feeling of having ones anus checked to passing the finance reform bill. The only difference being a colonoscopy usually accomplishes something.