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Democrats' 'First 100 Hours' Winds Down With Plenty of Time to Spare
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With more than 57 hours to spare, early Thursday evening, Democrats passed the last of their "Six for '06" plan — a renewable energy measure that adds $15 billion in new fees, royalties and taxes for the oil industry — 264-123, and prepared to turn off the clock.....

....“We have passed an agenda which we promised the American people we would pass in the first 100 hours,” said House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md. “No matter how much fun they make of it, no matter how many different ways to count it, we made it within our first 100 hours.”.....

The hours were clocked by measuring only the amount of time Congress debated the six items since convening the 110th Congress on Jan. 4. Republicans complained that Democrats were able to whip out the six bills in short order because they did not allow Republican involvement in the debate.

Pelosi said Democrats used 34 hours to pass the first five bills. Procedural voting on the last bill began in the 41st hour.

Democrats approved the remaining Sept. 11 commission recommendations that had not been made into law on Jan. 9; pushed through an increase of the minimum wage on Jan. 10, expanded federal funding for stem cell research on Jan. 11; allowed the government the power to re-negotiate Medicare drug prices on Jan. 12; and gave a cut in interest rates on students' college loans on Wednesday. They were on the verge of investing in renewable energy Thursday.

Democrats also won approval of internal House rule changes dealing with ethics, lobbying and budgeting. They were passed on the first two days of the new Congress but were not legislative actions so were not included.

All the bills have to be approved in the Senate, a generally slower deliberative body that has already demonstrated their own will on some of the hot topics.