WASHINGTON -- On the eve of a new Congress being heralded by its Democratic leadership as ushering in an age of bipartisanship, U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry of Hickory led a group of Republicans on Wednesday in accusing Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi of hypocrisy.

McHenry organized a packed news conference at the Capitol with nearly a dozen Republicans. The group touted a "Minority Bill of Rights" based, they said, almost word-for-word on a proposal Pelosi made as minority leader in 2004.