Copyrighted Image? DMCA | The new GOP chairmen of key House committees such as Appropriations, Budget, Energy and Commerce, and Oversight and Government Reform believe they have a mandate to check the size and scope of government. "If the House GOP sees bill after bill die in the Senate," Binder said, "they can certainly blame the Democrats for blocking them," and draw stark battle lines for 2012 in the process. Along that line, don't expect the new House, which will be sworn in Wednesday, to hash out the sort of deals that Senate Republicans reached with the White House over extending the George W. Bush-era tax cuts. |



