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"Nancy Pelosi spent most of her first two years in charge of the House berating an unpopular president from the opposing party while trying to keep her modest majority unified in staving off his lame-duck round of legislative priorities. Three months into her second term as Speaker, the job description she's developed for herself is profoundly different: holding a bigger collection of Democrats together behind the size and scope of a popular president's ambitious agenda while acting as his cheerleader in chief at the Capitol."

“We build consensus to begin with,” she said. “We don't go in and say, ‘Here's the proposal -- now who's on board?' We have a great deal of discussion on issues.”

"The Chamber of Commerce is publicly thanking Democrats who took political risks for supporting the economic stimulus package, striking yet another blow to the traditional alliance of Republicans and big business."

"The Chamber of Commerce is publicly thanking Democrats who took political risks for supporting the economic stimulus package, striking yet another blow to the traditional alliance of Republicans and big business."

"Key Democrats in Congress plan to try to pass legislation to expand government funding for embryonic stem cell research, in an attempt to cement into law a policy President Obama established on Monday."

"Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced yesterday that nearly $44 billion in federal stimulus aid to schools will be available to states in the next 30 to 45 days -- soon enough, education officials hope, to prevent hundreds of thousands of layoffs nationwide and program cuts that would hit home in schools across the Washington region."

"The gale force of President Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package could breathe new life into an emerging industry: small wind turbines."

"Many Kansas GOP lawmakers hate the economic stimulus package engineered by the Democratic Congress and signed by President Obama. But they've got to love how it promises to make the 2010 state budget far easier to craft and pass during the session's 43 remaining days."