In a letter addressed to her Democratic colleagues and members-elect over Thanksgiving weekend, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi gushed over the "important reforms" the Democratic majority would make in its rules package for the 116th Congress. Among these captivating new changes, she wrote, the package would "establish a select committee to improve the operation of Congress, ensuring that we deliver in a manner that is transparent, bipartisan and unifying." Establishing a committee to further investigate a topic of concern, however, is a congressional leader's way of telling a particular bloc of members that have been seeking specific concrete action, "No, you will not be getting that." In this case, the group Pelosi was saying "no" to was the Democratic membership of the House Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan, moderate caucus affiliated with the centrist political advocacy group No Labels. A group of nine of the caucus' Democratic members--down from 14 a few weeks ago--has been threatening to withhold its votes for Pelosi for speaker on the House floor in January unless she agrees to a series of a rules change that, in their words, would "allow for more transparency and bipartisan governing."