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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/republicans-set-to-clash-with-obama.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="US President Barack Obama is poised for head-to-head clashes with the Republican party (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-republicans-set-to-clash-with-obama.jpg" alt="US President Barack Obama is poised for head-to-head clashes with the Republican party (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>The Republican party is poised for head-to-head clashes with President Barack Obama as it takes charge of the US House of Representatives, promising an era of smaller government and less spending.</p>
<p>Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi turns over her speaker&#8217;s gavel to Rep John Boehner, who plans to quickly stage a vote to repeal Mr Obama&#8217;s health care overhaul, fulfilling promises the party made in the November election that put it back in control of the US Congress&#8217; lower house.</p>
<p>While the measure was likely to pass by a sizeable margin, Democrats still control the Senate, where the repeal is expected to die.</p>
<p>Renewed action on health care &#8211; passage in the House, quiet death in the Senate &#8211; could serve as a template for legislative gridlock in the final two years of Mr Obama&#8217;s term.</p>
<p>But with the country still mired in a wobbly economic recovery and battered by near 10% unemployment, Mr Obama said he was counting on Republicans&#8217; hot ideological positions to cool as the congressional session moved forward.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty confident that they&#8217;re going to recognise that our job is to govern and make sure that we are delivering jobs for the American people and that we are creating a competitive economy for the 21st century,&#8221; Mr Obama said on his return flight from a two-week holiday in Hawaii.</p>
<p>He said the two sides could build on the final session of the previous congress late last year, when they agreed on a compromise to prevent income taxes from rising, extend unemployment benefits and enact a social security tax cut that took effect on Saturday.</p>
<p>Perhaps coincidentally, Mr Obama&#8217;s job approval rating has climbed to 50% according to the latest Gallup Poll tracking survey. The president&#8217;s approval number had been in the mid-40s for most of the last six months and he was last at the 50% mark in late spring.</p>
<p>Many politicians believe Americans are hungering for a more bi-partisan political climate.</p>
<p>For her part, however, Ms Pelosi was still stoking the partisan fires as she prepared to vacate the speaker&#8217;s office after six years. The first woman to hold the speaker&#8217;s job said Democrats would be willing to work with Republicans when they presented &#8220;positive solutions&#8221;. But in nearly the same breath she called Republicans hypocrites for moving against health care.</p>
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