 CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | reply to RayW
Re: $700 billion could also... I believe the Senate is Republican controlled and they are the ones who wanted the bill redone with tax breaks. |
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RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | said by CylonRed:I believe the Senate is Republican controlled and they are the ones who wanted the bill redone with tax breaks. Although Dick Chaney is the Senate President, in reality he is only a tie break vote. The President Pro Tempore (the longest serving senator in the majority party) is the one who handles the day to day work of the Senate.
Majority Leader
Harry Reid
Democrat
President Pro Tempore
Robert C. Byrd
Democrat
Assistant Majority Leader
(Democratic Whip)
Richard Durbin
Democrat
Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell
Republican
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CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
1 edit | Yet it is the Republicans who pretty much voted down the last bill and there was not enough Democrats in the Senate to override. If the Democrats were truly in power the bill would have passed. The Republican's have pretty much forced the tax breaks thru that the Democrats have generally been against. The Republican's in the Senate forced the House to include measures they did not want in the bill. Hardly the Democrats pulling their power against the President or over the Republican's.
If the Democrats pulled all of the strings - the tax breaks would not be in and the last bill would have passed.
The Republican party in all of the things I have seen - took the accolades with defeating the last bailout package.
EDIT - opps - I see I had my the House and senate mixed up - thinking the Senate defeated the first and second legislation when it was the House... |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | Total BS. The Democrat party has majorities in both houses of Congress. If it wanted to, it could vote for the Wall Street welfare queen plan without a single vote from the GOP.
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