"Wes" wrote in message
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"John R. Carroll" wrote:

Unless the Republicans had 2/3's of the Senate during those 6 years,
their majority was simple also.



Regardless, Tom is still lying and he knows it.
The result isn't only obvious, it's bad news.




The Dems set the agenda in both the Senate and the House. While they do
not have full
control, they do have control on what legislation makes it to the floor.

Then there is who is the Speaker of the House, Majority Leader of the
Senate, which side
has more of their party on each committee and those sort of things.
Outside of the
filibuster in the Senate, the Dems own both houses the Congress, 4.?
Supreme Court
Justices and the federal permanent employees that stay on from one
administration to
another.

Tom's response, "Aren't the democrats in control of Congress?" not a lie
as far as I can
determine. The Dems are in control of Congress and have a majority of
regulators in their
camp.


Wes

Nobody can be said to control congress unless they get to where they have
the 60 votes needed in the senate to break a filibuster. Having a small
majority gives one side more power than the other but it doesn't give it
control until they can pass what they want regardless of what the opposition
party does. The republicans had that for a number of years and passed
anything they wanted and the Democrats couldn't do a thing about it. It's
nothing like that right now. But having the White house and a close minority
can arguably be said to be the party actually in control of the government.

Hawke