[Vision2020] And so it begins!!

J Ford privatejf32 at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 2 10:18:07 PST 2007 

Yeah, right!  Like the Republicans haven't and wouldn't do this!

Get real...anytime one party or the other can get things done without the 
other - they do it.  Simple fact of politics.



J  :]





>From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
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>Subject: [Vision2020] And so it begins!!
>Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 10:19:13 -0800
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>Democrats To Start Without GOP Input
>Quick Passage of First Bills Sought
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>By Lyndsey Layton and Juliet Eilperin
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>Tuesday, January 2, 2007; Page A01
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>As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to 
>campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are 
>planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of lawmaking.
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>House Democrats intend to pass a raft of popular measures as part of their 
>well-publicized plan for the first 100 hours. They include tightening 
>ethics rules for lawmakers, raising the minimum wage, allowing more 
>research on stem cells and cutting interest rates on student loans.
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>But instead of allowing Republicans to fully participate in deliberations, 
>as promised after the Democratic victory in the Nov. 7 midterm elections, 
>Democrats now say they will use House rules to prevent the opposition from 
>offering alternative measures, assuring speedy passage of the bills and 
>allowing their party to trumpet early victories.
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>Nancy Pelosi, the Californian who will become House speaker, and Steny H. 
>Hoyer of Maryland, who will become majority leader, finalized the strategy 
>over the holiday recess in a flurry of conference calls and meetings with 
>other party leaders. A few Democrats, worried that the party would be 
>criticized for reneging on an important pledge, argued unsuccessfully that 
>they should grant the Republicans greater latitude when the Congress 
>convenes on Thursday.
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>The episode illustrates the dilemma facing the new party in power. The 
>Democrats must demonstrate that they can break legislative gridlock and 
>govern after 12 years in the minority, while honoring their pledge to make 
>the 110th Congress a civil era in which Democrats and Republicans work 
>together to solve the nation's problems. Yet in attempting to pass laws key 
>to their prospects for winning reelection and expanding their majority, the 
>Democrats may have to resort to some of the same tough tactics Republicans 
>used the past several years.
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>Democratic leaders say they are torn between giving Republicans a say in 
>legislation and shutting them out to prevent them from derailing Democratic 
>bills.
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>"There is a going to be a tension there," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), 
>the new chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "My 
>sense is there's going to be a testing period to gauge to what extent the 
>Republicans want to join us in a constructive effort or whether they intend 
>to be disruptive. It's going to be a work in progress."
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>House Republicans have begun to complain that Democrats are backing away 
>from their promise to work cooperatively. They are working on their own 
>strategy for the first 100 hours, and part of it is built on the idea that 
>they might be able to break the Democrats' slender majority by wooing away 
>some conservative Democrats.
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>Democrats intend to introduce their first bills within hours of taking the 
>oath of office on Thursday. The first legislation will focus on the 
>behavior of lawmakers, banning travel on corporate jets and gifts from 
>lobbyists and requiring lawmakers to attach their names to special spending 
>directives and to certify that such earmarks would not financially benefit 
>the lawmaker or the lawmaker's spouse. That bill is aimed at bringing 
>legislative transparency that Democrats said was lacking under Republican 
>rule.
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>Democratic leaders said they are not going to allow Republican input into 
>the ethics package and other early legislation, because several of the 
>bills have already been debated and dissected, including the proposal to 
>raise the minimum wage, which passed the House Appropriations Committee in 
>the 109th Congress, said Brendan Daly, a spokesman for Pelosi.
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>"We've talked about these things for more than a year," he said. "The 
>members and the public know what we're voting on. So in the first 100 
>hours, we're going to pass these bills."
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>But because the details of the Democratic proposals have not been released, 
>some language could be new. Daly said Democrats are still committed to 
>sharing power with the minority down the line. "The test is not the first 
>100 hours," he said. "The test is the first six months or the first year. 
>We will do what we promised to do."
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