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...Leahy’s legislation is unlikely to pass so long as large pharmaceutical companies maintain their influence on Capitol Hill. Drug companies spent over $800 million on federal lobbying and federal and state campaign donations during the last seven years—more than any other industry, according to the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity—and employ nearly 1,300 lobbyists in the nation’s capital...
...always suggested that the titles Speaker of the House and Senate majority leader were someone's idea of a joke. But now that the high fives and jubilant photo ops are behind them, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have to run the place. Whether anything is actually accomplished on Capitol Hill over the next two years will depend largely on the skills these two leaders develop in maneuvering through the tricky challenges ahead...
...Despite the dramatic gains by the Democrats, Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan W. Thomas ’73 said that he didn’t foresee dramatic changes on Capitol Hill...
...Pelosi a mandate for change to launch the kind of tough anti-G.O.P. agenda the White House and their Republican allies on the Hill had feared. "The campaign is over," Pelosi shouted on Election Night, grinning with confidence in front of hundreds of roaring supporters blocks from the Capitol in Washington D.C. "Democrats are ready to lead!" A hoarse Rep. Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told the cheering supporters, "We'll give you the government that no longer lets you down." And he pledged to "reach across the partisan divide...
...Since it came just minutes after Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi called for new civilian leadership at the Pentagon, the announcement of Rumsfeld's firing might be seen as an act of political expediency, a sacrificial offering to the newly powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill. And it was. But the truly expedient thing to do - the move that might actually have helped Bush and congressional Republicans when it mattered, before Election Day - would have been to fire Rumsfeld last week, last month or last year...