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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (23210)8/14/2012 8:24:13 PM
From: longnshort2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 85487
 
What this shows is is that there were only two time periods during the 111th Congress when the Democrats had a 60 seat majority:

  • From July 7. 2009 (when Al Franken was officially seated as the Senator from Minnesota after the last of Norm Coleman’s challenges came to an end) to August 25, 2009 (when Ted Kennedy died, although Kennedy’s illness had kept him from voting for several weeks before that date at least); and
  • From September 25, 2009 (when Paul Kirk was appointed to replace Kennedy) to February 4, 2010 (when Scott Brown took office after defeating Martha Coakley);

so the dems had 60 seats twice and for about 6 months



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (23210)8/14/2012 9:20:41 PM
From: Little Joe5 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 85487
 
Only a democrat could sit by while the government wastes 60 billion a year in Medicare Fraud, spend 60 billion a year on education, while our kids get dumber, and totally ignore the GAO report outling even more billions of Fraud and waste and conclude that the solution to our problems is to ask anybody to pay more.

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