民主党即将在国会山掌控大局。他们将如何运用手中的权力？该党将面临压力，既要立法，又要实现其激进的监督雄心。
Democrats are about to run the show on Capitol Hill. What will they do with their power? The party will be under pressure to legislate alongside its aggressive oversight ambitions.
民主党明年将控制国会。在庆祝中期选举决定性胜利之后，他们将不得不面对下一个挑战：在唐纳德·特朗普总统仍留任白宫的未来两年里，利用手中权力推动立法。
Democrats will control Congress next year. And once they’re done celebrating their decisive midterm victory, they’ll have to confront their next challenge: leveraging their power to legislate with President Donald Trump still in the White House the next two years.
虽然民主党大部分时间将用于挥舞新获得的传票权力，传唤特朗普的高级官员和盟友，但他们在想要推行的政策上也毫不短缺——涉及从科技和人工智能到医疗保健和税收的方方面面。
While much of Democrats’ time will be spent wielding their new subpoena power to haul in Trump’s top officials and allies, they have no shortage of ideas for policies they also want to pursue — on everything from technology and artificial intelligence to health care and taxes.
民主党提出的许多提案不可避免地将成为旨在塑造舆论、为2028年总统大选造势的“信息传递法案”——并为他们若在该年赢得执政“三重奏”（注：指控制白宫、参众两院）后可立即启动的立法议程奠定基础。
Many of the proposals Democrats put forward will inevitably be messaging bills that try to shape public opinion ahead of the presidential contest in 2028 — and lay the groundwork for a legislative agenda they can jump on if they win a governing trifecta that year.
“我们将积极筹备，确保新国会1月3日开门红，”众议院民主党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（有望成为议长）在10月的记者电话会上表示。
“We’ll aggressively prepare to get off to a fast start on January 3rd in the new Congress,” House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, on track to become speaker, said in an October press call.