I'm confident one change that will be made is the end of the "Hastert rule", which required that a bill have the support of the "majority of the majority" before it could even be considered on the floor of the House.
One only need to look at the 04 Medicare drug bill that the Repub majority forced down the throat of Congress, when a much more reasonable and less costly bill had bi-partisan support and would have easily passed if a vote had been allowed.
No such restrictive "rule"ever exisited under any previous Speaker and any potential bi-partisanship was handcuffed by Hastert even before it got a chance.
There will certainly be partisanship with Pelosi as Speaker, but she has pledged to end such restrictive rules, in the tradition of past Dem Speakers.
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