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Election leaves Bush to bob on blue wave

With Democrats rising, next 2 years will be tough for lame-duck president

The first dramatic clash could come very soon. In an interview with MSNBC-TV on Wednesday, Biden said that as soon as the 110th Congress opened in January, he would convene hearings modeled on the historic examination of the Vietnam War conducted by Sen. William Fulbright, D-Ark., in 1971.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, a liberal San Franciscan who is expected to be elected the nation's first female speaker in January, has promised to take on the president right out of the starting gate with an ambitious 'First Hundred Hours' program to overhaul Washington.

The plan includes promises to reform lobbying and enact the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 commission, but it also includes several ideas that Bush has resisted: raising the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, cutting the interest rate on student loans in half, streamlining Medicare's prescription drug program and expanding federal funding for stem cell research.