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<P>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.</P>
<P>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
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<P>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.</P>
<P><A href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/p000197/"
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<A href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/h000874/"
target="">Steny H. Hoyer</A> 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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>Democratic leaders say they are torn between giving Republicans a say in
legislation and shutting them out to prevent them from derailing Democratic
bills.</P>
<P>"There is a going to be a tension there," said <A
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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."</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>"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."</P>
<P>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
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{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122801302.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"President Declares Tuesday A National Day of Mourning", kicker:"Honoring Ford", headline:"President Declares Tuesday A National Day of Mourning", subheadline:"", byline:"By Michael Abramowitz and Lyndsey Layton", source:"Washington Post Staff Writers", timestamp:"December 28, 2006 9:22 PM", blurb:"CRAWFORD, Tex., Dec. 28 -- President Bush declared a national day of mourning and ordered the federal government to close Tuesday to mark the death of Gerald R. Ford. Financial markets will be partially closed in observation of his passing as well.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/30/AR2006123000663.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Conflicts Shaped Two Presidencies", kicker:"Hussein and the Bushes", headline:"Conflicts Shaped Two Presidencies", subheadline:"U.S., Iraq Continue to Experience Aftereffects of Their Confrontations", byline:"By Peter Baker", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 30, 2006 4:40 PM", blurb:"The day after he ordered a cease-fire and brought the Persian Gulf War to a close, President George H.W. Bush ruminated about the status quo he had left behind in Iraq. \"Still no feeling of euphoria,\" he dictated to his diary Feb. 28, 1991. Saddam Hussein, he recognized, remained a threat. \"He\'s got...", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122700528.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Gerald R. Ford, 93, Dies; Led in Watergate\'s Wake", kicker:"", headline:"Gerald R. Ford, 93, Dies; Led in Watergate\'s Wake", subheadline:"", byline:"By J.Y. Smith and Lou Cannon", source:"Special to The Washington Post", timestamp:"December 27, 2006 5:36 AM", blurb:"Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., 93, who became the 38th president of the United States as a result of some of the most extraordinary events in U.S. history and sought to restore the nation\'s confidence in the basic institutions of government, has died. His wife, Betty, reported the death in a statement last night....", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR2007010100683.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Ugly Words For Ugly Truths", kicker:"NOTED WITH INTEREST", headline:"Ugly Words For Ugly Truths", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"January 1, 2007 7:48 PM", blurb:"At \"A Salute to Modern-Day Abolitionists\" last month in the State Department\'s elegant Ben Franklin Room, one of those abolitionists, John R. Miller, outgoing director of the State Department\'s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, expressed the view that fighting human trafficking...", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122801247.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Ford, Nixon Sustained Friendship for Decades", kicker:"", headline:"Ford, Nixon Sustained Friendship for Decades", subheadline:"", byline:"By Bob Woodward", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 28, 2006 8:49 PM", blurb:"Months before Richard M. Nixon set a relatively unknown Michigan congressman named Gerald R. Ford on the path to the White House, Nixon turned to Ford, who called himself the embattled president\'s \"only real friend,\" to get him out of trouble.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122800839.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Bush Declares Jan. 2 a Day of Mourning for Ford", kicker:"", headline:"Bush Declares Jan. 2 a Day of Mourning for Ford", subheadline:"Federal Offices to be Closed Tuesday", byline:"", source:"Reuters", timestamp:"December 28, 2006 4:18 PM", blurb:"President Bush on Thursday declared Jan. 2 a \"National Day of Mourning\" for former President Gerald Ford who died this week.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/30/AR2006123000329.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"A Solemn Homecoming", kicker:"", headline:"A Solemn Homecoming", subheadline:"Modest Salutes Mark 38th President\'s Return to Washington", byline:"By Michael E. Ruane", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 30, 2006 4:30 AM", blurb:"To the strains of a Navy piper\'s farewell, the clank of sword scabbards and the bang of an artillery salute, Washington welcomed the body of former president Gerald R. Ford last evening.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/30/AR2006123000160.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Caught in Fate\'s Trajectory, Along With Gerald Ford", kicker:"", headline:"Caught in Fate\'s Trajectory, Along With Gerald Ford", subheadline:"", byline:"By Lynne Duke", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 30, 2006 1:44 AM", blurb:"The accidental hero lived in torment. He didn\'t ask for fame, didn\'t even want it. Oliver \"Billy\" Sipple just happened to be standing in the path of history, right next to Sara Jane Moore, the would-be assassin, as she raised a .38 and aimed it at President Gerald R. Ford outside San Francisco\'s St....", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/29/AR2006122900483.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Ford Memorial Schedule", kicker:"", headline:"Ford Memorial Schedule", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"December 29, 2006 10:15 AM", blurb:"Official events to remember President Gerald Ford are planned in California, Washington D.C. and Michigan.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122801190.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Messages to Spies Are Coded but Not Hidden", kicker:"", headline:"Messages to Spies Are Coded but Not Hidden", subheadline:"Over Shortwave, Anyone Can Listen", byline:"By James Gordon Meek", source:"New York Daily News", timestamp:"December 28, 2006 8:28 PM", blurb:"It turns out that anybody can tune in to the world\'s top spy agencies talking to operatives. All you need is a cheap shortwave-radio receiver, the kind available at any drugstore.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/24/AR2006122400919.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Nonprofit Connects Murtha, Lobbyists", kicker:"", headline:"Nonprofit Connects Murtha, Lobbyists", subheadline:"Ties to Pa. Group Mutually Beneficial", byline:"By Jonathan Weisman", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 24, 2006 10:34 PM", blurb:"For a quarter of a century, Carmen Scialabba labored for Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), helping parcel out the billions of dollars that came through the House Appropriations Committee, so when the disabled aide needed a favor, Murtha was there.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/29/AR2006122901220.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Trounced at Polls, Kansas GOP Is Still Plagued by Infighting", kicker:"", headline:"Trounced at Polls, Kansas GOP Is Still Plagued by Infighting", subheadline:"Party Puts Ousted Official In His Opponent\'s Old Post", byline:"By Peter Slevin", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 29, 2006 7:42 PM", blurb:"CHICAGO, Dec. 29 -- Phill Kline is not one to slink away -- and the ideological wars inside the Kansas Republican Party show no sign of ending.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/31/AR2006123100412.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Solemn Faces on a Day of Revelry", kicker:"", headline:"Solemn Faces on a Day of Revelry", subheadline:"Visitors to the Capitol Pause Holiday Plans to Mourn and Honor Ford", byline:"By Ernesto Londo?o and Theresa Vargas", source:"Washington Post Staff Writers", timestamp:"December 31, 2006 2:12 PM", blurb:"Outside the Capitol and elsewhere in the Washington area, the new year marched in to the usual soundtrack of high heels clacking, alcohol sloshing, music thumping and fireworks exploding.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122701153.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Gerald R. Ford: A Healer of Wounds", kicker:"", headline:"Gerald R. Ford: A Healer of Wounds", subheadline:"", byline:"By Edward Walsh", source:"Special to The Washington Post", timestamp:"December 27, 2006 3:12 PM", blurb:"Gerald R. Ford was the most accidental of American presidents, but when he unexpectedly appeared at the crossroads of history, he seemed to have been placed there by a deliberate act of providence.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/21/AR2006122101865.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Pelosi Aims To Recast Self, Party", kicker:"", headline:"Pelosi Aims To Recast Self, Party", subheadline:"New House Speaker Plans a 4-Day Fete", byline:"By Lyndsey Layton", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 21, 2006 10:08 PM", blurb:"On a scale associated with presidential inaugurations, Nancy Pelosi is planning four days of celebration surrounding her Jan. 4 swearing-in as the first female speaker of the House. She will return to the blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood where she grew up, attend Mass at the women\'s college where...", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122701585.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Medicare Premiums Will Surge For Some", kicker:"", headline:"Medicare Premiums Will Surge For Some", subheadline:"Capital Gains Can Sharply Raise Part B Payments", byline:"By Marc Kaufman", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 27, 2006 9:08 PM", blurb:"When new income-based premiums for Medicare\'s Part B program go into effect next month, some seniors will get an unwelcome surprise: Their monthly costs will be going up considerably more than expected because of the government\'s method of counting their income.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2002/06/03/AR2005033108821.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Nixon Resigns", kicker:"", headline:"Nixon Resigns", subheadline:"", byline:"By Carroll Kilpatrick", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"March 31, 2005 2:21 AM", blurb:"Richard Milhous Nixon announced last night that he will resign as the 37th President of the United States at noon today. ", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/24/AR2006122400589.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Shift in Congress Puts Health Care Back on the Table", kicker:"", headline:"Shift in Congress Puts Health Care Back on the Table", subheadline:"Expecting a Mixed Reaction Across the Aisle, Democrats Plan to Offer Ideas on Drug Cost, Safety", byline:"By Christopher Lee", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 24, 2006 8:38 PM", blurb:"Health care is set to return to the national political stage in 2007, setting up partisan clashes in Congress that could end with rare vetoes from President Bush and help to define the 2008 presidential campaigns.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122800251.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Edwards Formally Joins 2008 Presidential Race", kicker:"", headline:"Edwards Formally Joins 2008 Presidential Race", subheadline:"Ex-Senator Calls for Drawdown in Iraq", byline:"By Dan Balz", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 28, 2006 8:20 AM", blurb:"NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 28 -- Former senator John Edwards of North Carolina launched his second campaign for the White House from this flood-ravaged city Thursday with a call for the United States to reduce its troop presence in Iraq and a plea for citizen action to combat poverty, global warming and America\'s reliance on foreign oil....", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122800917.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Text of Executive Order to Close Federal Government Offices on Jan. 2", kicker:"", headline:"Text of Executive Order to Close Federal Government Offices on Jan. 2", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"December 28, 2006 5:11 PM", blurb:"Office of the Press Secretary (Crawford, Texas) For Immediate Release, December 28, 2006 EXECUTIVE ORDER PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSING OF GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES ON JANUARY 2, 2007 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: ...", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122701599.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Excerpts From Bob Woodward\'s Interview With President Ford", kicker:"Transcript", headline:"Excerpts From Bob Woodward\'s Interview With President Ford", subheadline:"", byline:"Audio Recorded by Bob Woodward", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 27, 2006 9:15 PM", blurb:"On July 28, 2004, former president Gerald R. Ford sat down for an interview with The Washington Post\'s Bob Woodward. The interview was conducted at Ford\'s Beaver Creek, Colo., house; the former president agreed that his comments could be published any time after his death.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/29/AR2006122901004.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Washington Prepares for Farewell to Ford", kicker:"", headline:"Washington Prepares for Farewell to Ford", subheadline:"Family Service in California Begins 6 Days of Mourning", byline:"By John Pomfret and Mary Beth Sheridan", source:"Washington Post Staff Writers", timestamp:"December 29, 2006 4:54 PM", blurb:"PALM DESERT, Calif., Dec. 29 -- The nation\'s six days of formal mourning for Gerald R. Ford commenced Friday afternoon with a private service for his family and a period of public repose at the church where the 38th president worshiped for the three decades since he left the White House.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122801171.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Sen. Johnson Improves, Is Expected to Miss Start of Congress", kicker:"", headline:"Sen. Johnson Improves, Is Expected to Miss Start of Congress", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"Associated Press", timestamp:"December 28, 2006 8:20 PM", blurb:"Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) turned 60 yesterday, two weeks after emergency surgery to repair a brain hemorrhage that has left him in critical condition.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/31/AR2006123100832.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Follow the Leader, or Think Like a Starfish?", kicker:"", headline:"Follow the Leader, or Think Like a Starfish?", subheadline:"", byline:"", source:"", timestamp:"December 31, 2006 8:08 PM", blurb:"\"The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations\" describes the oft-overlooked reason Skype, Craigslist and al-Qaeda have prospered under assault from the seemingly more powerful.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/29/AR2006122901214.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"Edwards, Now Seasoned, Elbows His Way Into the Field", kicker:"Analysis", headline:"Edwards, Now Seasoned, Elbows His Way Into the Field", subheadline:"", byline:"By Dan Balz", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"December 29, 2006 7:26 PM", blurb:"PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Dec. 29 -- With overflow crowds and his populist economic message and his Internet-friendly campaign organization, John Edwards signaled this week that, if he has anything to say about it, the race for the Democratic presidential nomination will be about more than just Sen. Hillary...", commentcount:"", commenturl:""},
{url:"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/31/AR2005053100655.html?nav=hcmodule", linkText:"FBI\'s No. 2 Was \'Deep Throat\'", kicker:"", headline:"FBI\'s No. 2 Was \'Deep Throat\'", subheadline:"Mark Felt Ends 30-Year Mystery of The Post\'s Watergate Source", byline:"By David Von Drehle", source:"Washington Post Staff Writer", timestamp:"May 31, 2005 12:18 PM", blurb:"The secret source whose insider guidance was vital to The Washington Post\'s groundbreaking coverage of the Watergate scandal was a pillar of the FBI named W. Mark Felt.", commentcount:"", commenturl:""}]
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