Last Wednesday afternoon Nancy Pelosi once again won the Democratic caucus's nomination for speaker of the House. That morning, negotiating along with incoming Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, she had secured eight additional votesin an agreement over rules reform with members of the centrist House Problem Solver's caucus. The Problem Solvers, a group comprised equally of Democrats and Republicans, had been using the speaker vote as leverage to open up the legislative process to bipartisan bills.
In the run up to the caucus, the Problem Solvers and the think tank supporting them, No Labels, were criticized in a spate of articles casting doubt on these bipartisan motives.
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