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  • Dems Pledge to Scrutinize Big Business

    11/08/2006 7:28:00 PM PST · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 120 replies · 1,932+ views
    AP via Yahoo Finance ^ | 8 November 2006 | Brad Foss
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The new masters of the House, the Democrats, are promoting an economic agenda that would put more money in the pockets of ordinary citizens and government, while leading to greater oversight of big business. California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who is in line to become speaker, has promised to fight early on in the next Congress to lower the price of prescription drugs available through Medicare. Efforts to curb military spending are also likely, political and financial analysts said, following an election whose outcome was influenced in large part by voters' dissatisfaction with the handling of the war...