Enter multiple symbols separated by commas  Deal or No Deal—What
New Congress Might Actually Do  The 112th Congress convenes this
week with a surge of new Republican energy—and big questions
about where that energy will go.   Will that energy pour into
renewed partisan warfare, with President Obama battling a
Republican-led House infused with Tea Party fervor? That's what
most of America's recent political history would suggest.  Or
will it go into a bold, bipartisan push for action on reducing
America's long-term budget deficit, and perhaps overhauling the
tax system at the same time?  The surprisingly productive lame-
duck Congress late last year, when Obama struck a tax-cut deal
with Republican leaders, suggests that might be possible, too.
The likeliest result is a mix of both.  For a while, it may be
hard to tell the difference between the two anyway. That's
because some early gestures by the new House under Speaker John
Boehner will be at least partly symbolic.  One example is a new
set of procedures in