Tough choices, Madam Speaker
Democrats took control of Congress this week with promises of fiscal discipline, bipartisanship and help for middle-class America. They can't keep them all
NANCY PELOSI made history this week, and she made sure Americans noticed. The congresswoman from San Francisco, who became the country's first female speaker of the House of Representatives on January 4th, planned to celebrate her swearing-in with three days of carefully choreographed festivities, including a concert, a “people's” reception on Capitol Hill and a trip to her native Baltimore, where a street is to be named after her.
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