<div>Pat et. al.</div>
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<div>Consider that the US Federal government's budget was placed on cruise control by the outgoing Republican controlled US Congress, without an actual budget pushed through. This places the incoming Democrats in a tough situation, given that they have to deal with doing a real budget.
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<div>Anyway, though I feel the Democrats have to prove themselves worthy, they are proposing major changes to how the US Congress does its business, to attempt to stop some forms of "corruption," according to a discussion with Gail Russell Chaddock, of the Christian Science Monitor, on 'Washington Journal' on C-Span, that I just watched tonight. You can listen to the entire program to hear both pro and con views, with public phone-in discussion, of the Democrats intentions, via streaming audio by selecting "Washington Journal Entire Program (01/02/2007)" at this link:
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<div><a href="http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp?Cat=Series&Code=WJE&ShowVidNum=6&Rot_Cat_CD=WJ&Rot_HT=205&Rot_WD">http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp?Cat=Series&Code=WJE&ShowVidNum=6&Rot_Cat_CD=WJ&Rot_HT=205&Rot_WD
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<div>Ted Moffett</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Donovan Arnold</b> <<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>I for one am VERY happy that they Democrats are trying to reduce the interest rates on college loans. A reduction from the insane rate of 7.5% down to a somewhat OK interest rate of 4.5% reduces my debt nearly in half in the long wrong run, resulting in a huge increase in my credit rating, which will greatly increase the quality of my life.
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<div>If Republicans were not so negligent and abusive in their reign of incompetence these last few years, the Democrats would not need to be so aggressive in fixing these problems. </div>
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<div>Happy New Year,</div>
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<div>Donovan J Arnold<br><br><b><i>Andreas Schou <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ophite@gmail.com" target="_blank">ophite@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On 1/2/07, Pat Kraut wrote:<br>> Ah! But there was all that talk after the election of integrity,<br>> partisonship, working with each other, honesty etc etc. So now we know for
<br>> sure...Pelosi is a liar!<br><br>Pat --<br><br>The rules that Pelosi is operating under are those developed after the<br>Republican Revolution. She's promised a certain number of reforms in<br>the first 100 hours. After the first 100 hours, the rules will revert
<br>back to being sane.<br><br>Nothing has changed about the procedures since the Republicans were in<br>power. Or don't you believe the way the Republicans conducted business<br>was fair to the minority?<br><br>-- ACS
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