Ironic that we would get our first female speaker of the House just as Gerald Ford is buried. We were just explaining to Bella how Gerald Ford was speaker of the House when he became president… hmm. Wishful thinking.
Here’s an except from a NYTimes article explaining some of next week’s plans – exciting!:
“Next week, the Democrats plan a 100-hour blitz to raise the minimum wage, lift restrictions on federal financing of embryonic stem cell research and allow the government to negotiate price cuts with pharmaceutical companies for the Medicare prescription drug program, among other matters. By the time they have clocked the 100 hours of legislative debate, House Democrats also plan to have passed bills to cut interest rates on student loans and roll back subsidies for oil and gas producers, seeking to make a statement of priorities, pressure the Senate to act and put an active agenda before the country before Mr. Bush’s State of the Union address on Jan. 23.”