Posted on 11/22/2006 7:44:30 AM PST by SmithL
Pelosi plans to start the 110th Congress with a bang on Jan. 4 -- when the House holds its ceremonial swearing in and elects her as speaker -- by immediately setting off on a sprint of several weeks to enact the Democrats' ambitious 100-hour agenda.
Lawmakers usually return home between the swearing-in ceremony and the president's speech, but analysts say the hurried schedule gives Democrats a chance to show instant results. It could also put Bush on the defensive, forcing him to sign or veto a host of popular initiatives.
"Given the well-earned do-nothing reputation of the 109th Congress and its record-setting minimal number of days in session, Pelosi is right to get a quick and sustained start to the 110th Congress," said Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution. "Forget the vacation time -- better to move quickly to set an expectation of more time and serious work in Washington."
Pelosi, in a statement, said the rapid start is needed to tackle a lengthy to-do list that includes everything from passing new ethics rules to raising the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.
"It is imperative that we waste no time in addressing the pressing needs facing our nation," the San Francisco Democrat said.
Tactically, the move has several advantages: January is usually a slow news month that the president dominates by leaking tidbits from his State of the Union speech and his proposed budget a few days later. Instead of waiting for Bush's...
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...and Nancy Pelosi is deeply disturbed.
Yikes!!....looks like another botox treatment is needed....
Let her keep talking and when she doesn't deliver, then in 2008 we take back the House! Cannot believe the House will be headed by a socialist who hires non-union labor in her vineyard. Noticed the press didn't have much to say about that.
Oh yeah! "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
This is someone who's going to make Newt seem well-loved when she gets done.
Nothing like a pushy dame with an attitude to put peoples' backs up, especially other women.
Ask him if he is so upset that the military, as it is, penalizes the poorer guys in our society and protects the richer kids from serving in the military, then why doesn't wily old Charlie protest the efforts by liberal wackos to keep military recruiters off many prestigious university campuses where they could reach many of those "rich kids"? ROTC too?
Hey, Nancy! Good luck getting that 100-hour agenda of yours past the Senate and Bush's veto pen.
I called Rangles office yesterday and said they should cut off federal funds to Yale and Harvard if they don't allow recruiters on the campus.
That would be more effective than insulting the troops like Kerry does. They hung up on me.
I hope you're right. I hope Dubya has the stuff enough to veto. He's awfully conciliatory lately and it gives me a sinking feeling.
If Bush is smart he will veto everything this insane nut tries to push through the system to his desk. And this minimum wage thing is a joke. This one will have little or no effect on business since most pay more than that anyway. Some businesses that it might effect can probably work around it.
Senate can perform its function of the cooling saucer.
>> Hey, Nancy! Good luck getting that 100-hour agenda of yours past the Senate and Bush's veto pen.
Bush has a veto pen? Are you sure?
"Given the well-earned do-nothing reputation of the 109th Congress and its record-setting minimal number of days in session, Pelosi is right to get a quick and sustained start to the 110th Congress," said Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution. "Forget the vacation time -- better to move quickly to set an expectation of more time and serious work in Washington."
the house repubs can run out the clock before the SOTU with endless debate & amendments.
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