The new government is hitting the legislative ground running, looking to use its Enterprise Bill to reduce regulation and create a business environment that encourages entrepreneurship.
Key states like Florida, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin have paths to victory that involve gaining legislative ground in 2016, electing governors in 2018 and retaking chambers in 2020.
Even as he sought legislative common ground with Senate Republicans, he talked of his desire to put Democrats in control of the chamber.
With Republicans in control of the House and Senate, many are calling for Congress to seek legislative common ground with President Obama.
"The Kansas Senate voted 21-19 - the barest margin possible - to send the House a bill that would establish "attempting to usurp" legislative powers as grounds for impeaching justices of the state Supreme Court.
But this huge deployment of Congressional committee members and staff, the legislative equivalent of a ground war, is clearly not the most surgical way of striking at Enron's misdeeds.
By moving quickly on the issue, the speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, has made one of his top priorities the renewal of the rent laws, a subject that ground the legislative process to a halt in 1997, when they were last revamped.
Recent bipartisan action in Congress to end the problematic "sustainable growth rate" (SGR) for Medicare payments shows that when there is common ground, the legislative branch can work.
For months, Republicans have argued that if they controlled both chambers of Congress, Obama would have to moderate his own liberal positions and give more ground in legislative talks.
Moreover, rather than restraining the actions of the trial court hearing the contest, the legislative amendment codified the grounds for contesting an election, entitled any candidate or elector to an immediate hearing and provided the circuit judge with express authority to fashion such orders as are necessary to ensure that each allegation in the complaint is investigated, examined or checked.
Whilst countries such as Italy and Australia have recently enacted robust regulations, there is still room for a convincing ground-breaking legislative initiative, as Marco Civil da Internet was for the digital environment in 2014.
