From the New York Times on Michael Barbaro, this is the day.

Today, for weeks, House Democrats, new to power, have found their agenda overshadowed

by the struggle to reopen the government.

Now that it's open, they have a plan.

It's Wednesday, January 30th.

The 116th Congress is here and Democrats are eager to get moving on their goals for the next two years.

When Democrats took control of the House at the beginning of the month, they came to office wanting to lay out what their priorities were, what they were all about, what they would do with power.

So what is on their agenda? Well, the most pressing issue will be trying to end the government shutdown.

Instead, they were greeted on day one with a government shutdown.

Nick Fando's covers Congress for the Times.

The longer the shutdown goes on, the worse it is for everybody, and certainly Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats want to go back to their agenda.

They want to start their agenda.

That's kind of crazy. The idea that anybody thinks that they should be doing anything right now other than opening the government of the...

Democrats have an agenda whether you like it or not. They can't get that agenda going with the government shutdown.

So it's only now basically that the shutdown ended last Friday that we're kind of hitting reset in Congress,

and they're getting a little bit of a do over to introduce the kind of policies, the legislation,

and the other things that are going to be priorities for this Democratic Congress and that they really want the American people to clue in on.

Hey, this is what Democrats are about.

So what exactly are they doing?

So Democrats are laying out a kind of two-prong strategy.

Today we have a new speaker, and today we have a new majority.

And today we're going to take decisive action, very decisive action.

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