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...Ford did have a private source of spiritual sustenance, which was in every way different from Nixon's public displays of piety. For years Ford faithfully attended a weekly late-morning prayer session with several friends in the House: John Rhodes of Arizona, Mel Laird of Wisconsin and Al Quie of Minnesota. The sessions, which began in 1967 and continued off and on through 1975, were "very quiet," totally off the record, Ford said. Talk about going to Bible study, he worried, and people will get the idea that you think you're somehow better than they...
...Certainly, the 233 House Democrats to be sworn in will have an easier time passing their legislative agenda. House rules give incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi the power to shut out Republicans, which she plans to do in the first 100 hours of the legislative session as she pushes through a host of party-friendly bills, such as increasing the minimum wage and requiring the federal government to negotiate lower prices with pharmaceutical firms for Medicare's prescription drug benefit plan. Fostering better bipartisan relations - another promise Pelosi made - will probably have to wait for a hundred days...
...Still, Democratic and Republican lawmakers know each party pays a price in two years if legislative gridlock continues. Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plan to begin the new session with a closed meeting of all Republicans and Democrats in the Capitol to discuss ways they can get along. "Both understand the need to change the way D.C. operates," says Manley...
...scored a career-high 25 points to go along with a season-high five assists, and senior center Brian Cusworth, who matched Housman’s scoring effort and added a career high-tying 16 rebounds. The duo combined to net the first three points of the extra session on free throws, and after Vermont guard Kyle Cieplicki pushed it back to a one-point game with a jumper, Cusworth converted a pretty feed from Lin to make it 74-71.Catamounts forward Joe Trapani was then called for a crucial traveling violation, leading to a play from Housman that epitomized...
...Democrats did after the 2000 election that left the chamber evenly split, with Vice President Dick Cheney as the tie-breaker - on an "out clause" that stipulates that control of the chamber goes to them if they somehow manage to achieve a majority during the course of the session. As both sides remember, that clause came in handy for the Democrats a few months later, when Vermont's Jim Jeffords abruptly declared himself an independent and gave the Democrats a one-vote majority...