Well, if Speaker Pelosi has her way, Obama won't even have a chance to break that promise.
According to Human Events, Pelosi plans to implement a major rule change that was written in by Republicans and Newt Gingrich with their "Contract with America"
When Republican's took over after their sweeping victories in 1994...
After decades of Democrat control of the House of Representatives, gross abuses to the legislative process and several high-profile scandals contributed to an overwhelming Republican House Congressional landslide victory in 1994. Reforms to the House Rules as part of the Contract with America were designed to open up to public scrutiny what had become under this decades-long Democrat majority a dangerously secretive House legislative process. The Republican reform of the way the House did business included opening committee meetings to the public and media, making Congress actually subject to federal law, term limits for committee chairmen ending decades-long committee fiefdoms, truth in budgeting, elimination of the committee proxy vote, authorization of a House audit, specific requirements for blanket rules waivers, and guarantees to the then-Democrat minority party to offer amendments to pieces of legislation.
Now Pelosi is set to repeal this rule, effectively giving the minority little to no power in the legislative process.
Will be interesting to see if Obama still wants to call for bipartisanship.
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