New Congress vows to clean up act
Christian Science Monitor
11/16/06
The midterm elections that ended GOP control of both House and Senate turned on two overriding themes: the war in Iraq and corruption in Congress. Now, beginning with leadership elections this week, both parties are out to show voters they got the message. For Democrats, united in a keen desire not to slip back into the minority in 2008, a first step is the promise of a new style of leadership on Capitol Hill: open, bipartisan, and above reproach -- and an agenda anchored in the needs of the average American family. 'Voters rejected the Bush agenda, but they haven't yet embraced us,' said Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, who was elevated Tuesday to No. 3 in the Democratic leadership after chairing the party's senatorial campaign committee to a victory few of his colleagues believed would happen. 'What we have here could vanish if we don't do the job.'" [editor's note: End the war, and bring the troops home; repeal the USA PATRIOT Act; end the War on SOME Drugs; restore the Bill of Rights ... then we'll talk! - SAT]
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p01s01-uspo.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
11/16/06
The midterm elections that ended GOP control of both House and Senate turned on two overriding themes: the war in Iraq and corruption in Congress. Now, beginning with leadership elections this week, both parties are out to show voters they got the message. For Democrats, united in a keen desire not to slip back into the minority in 2008, a first step is the promise of a new style of leadership on Capitol Hill: open, bipartisan, and above reproach -- and an agenda anchored in the needs of the average American family. 'Voters rejected the Bush agenda, but they haven't yet embraced us,' said Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, who was elevated Tuesday to No. 3 in the Democratic leadership after chairing the party's senatorial campaign committee to a victory few of his colleagues believed would happen. 'What we have here could vanish if we don't do the job.'" [editor's note: End the war, and bring the troops home; repeal the USA PATRIOT Act; end the War on SOME Drugs; restore the Bill of Rights ... then we'll talk! - SAT]
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p01s01-uspo.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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