Heads up. Ten minutes till the House goes into session!!!

[Skidmore]

I can't wait. I don't remember being this excited on Christmas morning when I was a kid.

[helderheid]

1. I feel the same way!! :D

[Sydnie]

2. It's positively orgasmic!

I feel like I am waiting for a long lost friend to exit a plane or something!

[dipsydoodle]

3. BBC link for you

Democrats are taking control of the US Congress after 12 years as a minority - with a woman at the helm of the House of Representatives for the first time.
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Ms Pelosi, who will be referred to as "Madam Speaker", has vowed to clean-up Congress, saying: "It takes a woman to clean house" - a reference to the corruption seen as widespread on Capitol Hill.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6230735.stm

[Lasher]

4. Has anybody started an official thread yet?

I haven't seen any so far.

[helderheid]

5. This could be it?

[Lasher]

7. Works for me.

I was just looking for one with a subject line that says this is the thread.

The House of Representatives is being covered on CSPAN 1, which can be viewed online here:

http://www.cspan.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[no_hypocrisy]

6. This is better than New Year's Eve: FIVE! n/t

[Lasher]

8. I've got goose bumps running up and down my arms

Doesn't happen often to a 57 year old man. Not to this one anyway.

[Lasher]

9. Heads up! Somebody's started an official thread

There's more folks participating in that one. I'm going to jump over there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3040376&mesg_id=3040376

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Ok I say alraedy we want to heve her swon in

:-)