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Pelosi makes statement
BY ERICA WERNER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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WASHINGTON — Sworn in just over two weeks ago as the first female speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi wasted no time showing who's boss.
House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, celebrates with fellow Democrats at an election-night rally in Washington in this Nov. 7, 2006, file photo. At left, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Rep. Emanuel Rangel (D-III.), and from right, chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Senate Democratic Leader Rep. Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
The California Democrat rammed six major bills through the House at breakneck speed, stomped out smoking privileges near the House floor, partially sidelined a powerful Democratic committee chairman and decided she liked traditionally Republican office space so much she claimed it for herself.
By Democra's timekeeping, she did it all in far under the 100 legislative hours she had allotted.
"We did what we promised the American people we would," Pelosi declared on Friday, pledging it was "just the beginning."
Pelosi's initial agenda, completed Thursday, included measures with wide popular support: increasing the minimum wage, broadening stem cell research, allowing government bargaining on Medicare drug prices, cutting student loan costs, putting in
place terrorism-fighting recommendations from the Sept. 11 commission and rolling back energy company tax breaks.
Each bill passed with bipartisan majorities and Pelosi triumphantly
gaveled down the votes, at one point banging the gavel so enthusiastically that it left a small dent in the podium.
Now Democrats will have to move on to thorier topics.
Manning avoids meltdown
>> SUPER BOWL XLI
BY EDDIE PELLS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS — A comeback, a drive, a legacy. And yes — finally — Peyton Manning gets his Super Bowl trip, too.
Football's most prolific quarterback put on a show for the ages Sunday, rallying the Indianapolis Colts from 18 points down and driving them 80 yards for the winning score in a wildly entertaining 38-34 victory over the New England Patriots.
Joseph Addat capped Manning's late drive with the winning score, a 3-yard run with 1 minute left to help the Colts (15-4) complete the rally and send coach Tony Dungy to his first Super Bowl — and a very special one.
In his nine years in the league, Manning has never played in a game like this AFC championship contest. He threw for 349 yards and one touchdown and brought his team back from a 21-3 deficit.
Dungy and the Colts will face the Chicago Bears and his good friend Lovie Smith in Miami in two weeks. Together they are the first
black coaches to make the Super Bowl in its 41 years.
After Indy's last touchdown, Manning was on the sideline, his head down -he couldn't bear to watch. New England's Tom Brady
— he of the three Super Bowl rings
— threw an interception to Marlin Jackson and the RCA Dome crowd went wild. One kneel down later and Manning ripped off his helmet to celebrate.
Not only was it tawni for Manning, the All-Pro, All Everything son of Archie, it was a riveting, back-and-forth showcase of two of the NFLs.
best teams, best quarterbacks, and yet another example of why football is America's favorite sport.
It was anything but by the-book, and that started becoming obvious when New England left guard Logan Mankins opened the scoring by pouncing on a fumbled hand-off between Brady and Laurence Maroney that squirted into the Indy end zone midway through the first quarter.
"Walking the Dream"
It got worse from there for Manning, but the game morphed from another Manning meltdown into something much more.
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