LIE OF THE WEEK: 01-19-2007
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the new Congress' first 100 hours in office:
"In the November election, the American people signaled their wish for change — a wish for our country to go in a new direction," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "Democrats promised that we would, and these past two weeks, we have delivered on our promise."
THE TRUTH: While it's true that the new congress has passed bills in seven areas as promised (new ethics rules, recouping lost royalties from oil and gas companies and roll back industry tax breaks, raising the minimum wage, expanding taxpayer-financed research into embryonic stem cells, forcing more homeland security measures, directing the federal government to negotiate for cheaper Medicare prescription drugs, and lowering interest rates on subsidized student loans), what's more true is that only two of these items (minimum wage and student loan interest rates) will probably ever pass the US Senate in some form and have any possibility of being signed into law by President Bush. It's very premature to claim any kind of victory based only on the majority party passing a few bills in one house of Congress, but that just most proof that there's no real difference between how the two parties operate.
"In the November election, the American people signaled their wish for change — a wish for our country to go in a new direction," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "Democrats promised that we would, and these past two weeks, we have delivered on our promise."
THE TRUTH: While it's true that the new congress has passed bills in seven areas as promised (new ethics rules, recouping lost royalties from oil and gas companies and roll back industry tax breaks, raising the minimum wage, expanding taxpayer-financed research into embryonic stem cells, forcing more homeland security measures, directing the federal government to negotiate for cheaper Medicare prescription drugs, and lowering interest rates on subsidized student loans), what's more true is that only two of these items (minimum wage and student loan interest rates) will probably ever pass the US Senate in some form and have any possibility of being signed into law by President Bush. It's very premature to claim any kind of victory based only on the majority party passing a few bills in one house of Congress, but that just most proof that there's no real difference between how the two parties operate.
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