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...supposed to be like old times. In an election in which exit polls identified corruption as the No. 1 voting issue and Washington's biggest corruption scandal involved lobbying, Democrats won in part by promising to curtail K Street's excesses. Pelosi has said her first act as Speaker of the House in January will be to pass new rules limiting contact between lobbyists and lawmakers. Later in 2007, Pelosi plans to rewrite the laws on pork-barrel spending. She promises that the overall effect of her reforms will be "to break the link between lobbyists and legislation" in Washington...
...Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi, who stumbled badly last week when she publicly backed the failed candidacy of Rep. John Murtha for majority leader, could be headed for another political tumble if she presses ahead with long-standing plans to elevate Rep. Alcee Hastings, a senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, to the panel's chairmanship...
...endorsed by the depleted government and the U.N. Security Council greenlighted the final version on Tuesday. The resolution now has to be passed by the Lebanese government and ratified by parliament before taking effect. Then there are other potential blocks to the adoption of the resolution: Nabih Berri, the Speaker of parliament and an ally of Hizballah, could delay calling a session to vote on the resolution, which requires a simple majority to pass. Then again, President Lahoud could freeze passage by simply refusing to sign the bill...
...Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi, who stumbled badly last week when she publicly backed the failed candidacy of Rep. John Murtha for majority leader, could be headed for another political tumble if she presses ahead with long-standing plans to elevate Rep. Alcee Hastings, a senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, to the panel's chairmanship...
Paralleling the takeover of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as the first female speaker of the House in history, the Harvard College Democrats last week elected their first female president in six years. Six of the ten students on the College Dems’ executive board are female as well...