The bad news for members of Congress: In a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, only 31 percent of Americans say they approve of the job Congress is doing. The good news for members of Congress: That's roughly twice as many as approved in October, before the Democrats took control.
A point of comparison: George W. Bush's approval rating stands at 35 percent in the new poll, a few ticks down from where it was before the midterm elections.
Although the poll's respondents are split pretty evenly on whether Congress should restrict funding for Iraq as a way to limit Bush's ability to send more troops there -- 44 percent favor such a move while 48 percent oppose it -- they said by a 10-point margin they're more concerned that Congress will do too little to push Bush to reduce troop levels than they are that Congress will do too much.
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