Georgia House still controlled by Democrats

ATLANTA - House Democrats have cemented their power in the Georgia House after a two-month struggle against Republican Governor Perdue. <br> <br> They lost no time signaling he may face trouble from them over one of his top priorities - redistricting. <br> <br> Perdue, the first Republican to serve as governor of Georgia since 1872, is pushing for lawmakers to redraw the legislative and congressional lines that Democrats designed in 2001 in a bid to roll back the clock on Republican political gains. <br> <br> But Representative Terry Coleman - the Democrat who became House Speaker Monday after Perdue abandoned an effort to topple him - says the present district lines have been approved by a federal court. He says the legislature would ``an overwhelming justification to change it.&#39;&#39;

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