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In the shadow of the healthcare debate, a couple of other pieces of domestic policy received coverage. NBC's Rehema Ellis outlined Education Secretary Arne Duncan's proposal to revamp the No Child Left Behind Program: "The previous law was too punitive. It was too prescriptive. It actually led to a dumbing down, a lowering of standards, and it narrowed the curriculum. We want to reverse all of that," was how Ellis cross-promoted her sibling channel MSNBC, quoting Secretary Duncan on Morning Joe. On CBS, Anthony Mason publicized the plan by Christopher Dodd, the Democratic Senator from Connecticut, to regulate high finance: "Critics say the reforms do little to police derivatives and credit default swaps, the complex financial contracts, which helped set off the crisis."
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