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The leaders of the incoming Democratic Congress are already taking steps to ensure that the party maintains its majority in 2008. The NY Times reports:
The 110th Congress has not even been sworn into
office. But in a measure of the determination not to surrender the
majority in two years, Representative Nancy Pelosi, the presumptive
speaker, has instructed aides to begin acting immediately to help
Democrats who won by small margins in districts where President
Bush did well in 2004 or who coasted in because their opponents
were mired by controversy. Those new members are methodically being
given coveted spots on high-profile committees, in particular the
Financial Services Committee, a magnet for campaign contributions,
and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, a platform
from which to send money for projects back home.
Their names will be affixed as co-sponsors atop big-ticket
measures on ethics and stem cell research that are to be voted on
in the first 100 hours of the new Congress, Democratic leaders
said.
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