Pelosi Pledges Quick Passage of $600B Stimulus

The speaker's comments came on a day that a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll showed Congress remains unpopular with the American public: 37% said they approve of the way congressional Democrats are doing their job. The figure was 25% for congressional Republicans.

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Pelosi blamed the war in Iraq, which Democrats tried unsuccessfully to begin winding down, for the low approval ratings. She acknowledged that her party may have had some impact on Congress' negative image. There may be a "residual" effect, Pelosi said, from Democrats' successful 2006 campaign to win control of Congress by portraying it as home to a "culture of corruption."