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Nancy Pelosi, the new speaker of the House, has discovered what's wrong with the rest of us. We don't know how to tell time, and she does. Mzz Pelosi and her "new Democrats" have just about completed their legislative agenda of "the first 100 hours." By the arithmetic the rest of us learned in grade school, hundreds of hours have elapsed since the clock started ticking with the convening of the 110th Congress on Jan. 4, but Democrats new and old march to a distant drummer, a confusing cadence and a stopped clock.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed the National Press Club this morning to deliver Democrats' national Address on the State of Our Union. The new Democratic Congress is committed to working in a bipartisan fashion to make America energy independent, to express the overwhelming opposition of the American people to the President's plan to escalate the war in Iraq, and to take America in a new direction. Below are their remarks as prepared: Speaker Nancy Pelosi: It is an honor to be here with my friend Senate Majority Leader Reid for...

WASHINGTON - The House wrapped up the Democrats' "100 Hours" legislative sprint Thursday with time to spare, voting to recoup billions of dollars in lost royalties from oil and gas companies and roll back industry tax breaks. The energy bill capped a two-week drumbeat of votes on legislation that, while popular with voters last fall, awaits a sketchy fate in the Senate. The House bill, approved 264-123, sets a conservation fee on oil and gas from the Gulf of Mexico, attempts to recoup royalties lost because of a government error in drilling leases in the late 1990s, and rolls back...

Here we are in the middle of the first month of the new year and Congress has been in session since January 4th. There has been alot of hooplah and ceremonial crowning of the first woman Speaker of the House. But, what happened to the big "First 100 Hours" that Nancy Pelosi was so adament about enacting under her and the new democratic leadership? Did they start off by lying to the American people, of the 1st broken promise or did something more subtle take place under their botoxed noses? Could it be that a Presidential speech calling for more...

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Fending off charges of favoritism, House Democrats say a just-passed minimum wage bill will be changed to cover all U.S. territories — including American Samoa — before it reaches President Bush's desk. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters she has instructed the House Education and Labor Committee to help get the bill changed to "make sure that all of the territories have to comply with the U.S. law on minimum wage." Her remark Friday followed accusations from Republicans a day earlier that American Samoa, which is not now covered by the $5.15 an hour federal minimum...

Notice to those tracking the progress of the new Democratic-led House of Representatives: Get ready to start the clock -- but only after Monday's big football game. With some critics already jeering, Democrats on Tuesday kick off their "first 100 legislative hours," during which they vow to pass much of the agenda that helped them win control of Congress from President George W. Bush's Republicans in last year's elections. The newly elected House convened on Thursday with plenty of fanfare and the majority party vowing to put it on a five-day work week after ridiculing the Republicans for having worked...

The First Hundred Hours have begun. (Lest anyone wonder why they aren’t already over, new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi meant congressional working hours, not real hours.) We’ve seen Pelosi show exactly how much her own wonderfulness needs to be celebrated—and her grandiose tendency to think of herself as Mangog-like living embodiment of all the glories and splendors of her entire gender. But what of the Democrat’s 100 Hours agenda, past celebrating Pelosi-hood? It's not worth the cannoli with which it was launched. The ethics reform stuff deserves at least a half-hearted cheer, if only because it’s nice to...

With Pelosi coronated, it's time for her to execute her promised 100 hour plan. Please post links to articles indicating the progression of that 100 hours.

100 Hours: Honest Leadership and Open Government John Samples, director of Cato's Center for Representative Government and author of The Fallacy Of Campaign Finance Reform: The ethics part of this agenda evokes a limited sense of déjà vu. On their first day in power in 1995, the House Republicans cut House staff, changed budgeting rules, enacted term limits for their leadership, banned proxy voting in committee, opened committee hearings to the public, required a three-fifths vote to increase taxes, started a comprehensive audit of the House, and applied anti-discrimination and workplace safety rules to Congress itself. Later they passed...