Republicans Plan Policy Agenda for Senate

“As odds improve that the GOP will control both chambers of Congress next year, Senate Republicans are starting to plan an agenda intended to extract policy concessions from President Obama without inducing the capital’s market-rattling brinkmanship of recent years,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Republican senators say the emerging plans aim to show voters that the party can successfully govern–enacting GOP policy while avoiding a sharply confrontational tone that some Republicans fear could endanger the party’s electoral prospects in 2016. Some of the top goals include approving the Keystone XL pipeline, passing accelerated rules for overseas trade agreements, speeding up federal reviews of natural-gas exports and repealing the 2010 health law’s medical-device tax.”