Brown's Win Forces Democrats to Recalibrate

WASHINGTON, DC - Jan 20: Senate Democratic Conference Secretary Patty Murray, D-Wash., Senate Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., during a news conference after the Democratic policy luncheon, a day after Republican Scott Brown's upset victory in Tuesday's election for a Senate seat from Massachusetts. The victory deprives Senate Democrats of a filibuster-proof majority at an especially awkward moment and threatens to slow their legislative agenda before November's midterm elections. Democrats awakened to the first anniversary of President Obama's inauguration with party leaders trying to minimize the rebuke voters delivered in the special election to fill the unexpired term of Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal Democratic icon who died in August. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)