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After 2 Years, Nancy Pelosi Realizes Democrats Have a Majority in the House
Firedoglake — Alan K. Ota reports for Congressional Quarterly today: An early partisan skirmish is likely in the House next week, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to move a rules package that would curb the GOP’s ability to derail legislation ...

House Rules Changes: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Moderate Voice — ... We shall file this one under the already crowded, “Careful what you wish for” category. CQ Politics reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pondering some rule changes designed to make it harder for the Republican minority to slow down the majority’s efforts to push through new legislation. ...

Pelosi To Change The House Rules Against Minority?
Pirate's Cove — ... An early partisan skirmish is likely in the House next week, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to move a rules package that would curb the GOP’s ability to derail legislation through a parliamentary maneuver it has used over the past two years. ...

Pelosi To Change The House Rules Against Minority?
Stop The ACLU — The most ethical and bi-partisan Congress evah! Nancy Pelosi finger An early partisan skirmish is likely in the House next week, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to move a rules package that would curb the GOP’s ability to derail legislation through a parliamentary maneuver it has used over the past two years. Democrats may also end the current three-term limit for committee chairmen — a limit adopted by Republicans when they took over the House in 1995 and retained in the House rules adopted by Democrats when they regained the majority in the 110th Congress. A senior ...

Pelosi's Power Play: Do the Blue Dogs only bark?
The Next Right — Good morning, and welcome to the start of the 111th Congress. Your intrepid blogger remains on his voter-mandated vacation as he writes this, and it is not for a lack of trying. As we move forward to the ceremonial opening of Congress, we must ask ourselves if Speaker Nancy Pelosi will beckon children to gather about her as she is anointed like she did at the start of the 110th Congress. Or, will she beckon the special-interest group which will be at the heart of every Democrat this session: the union bosses? The news reports today detail how Madame Speaker has, with the likely tacit approval of the incoming ...