Under the rules, the majority party called two witnesses and the minority party one.
The minority party in the House normally has one fewer leadership posts than the majority.
One reason Obama can do this is that the minority party is in disarray.
That's exactly what he had in mind after five frustrating years in the minority party in Washington.
The minority party always votes in opposition because it allows an easy opportunity to smear the majority.
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For another, the Republicans were still the minority party in Congress, and Bauman's transgressions took everyone by surprise.
Unlike the House, it is weighted to give the minority party exceptional power.
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Heading into Election Day, the minority party continued to play on this dissatisfaction.
Sure, they can call Cheney's intervention an arrogant abuse of power that tramples on the rights of the minority party.
This characterization of the minority party is common in the news media as well, and not just the conservative opinion journals.
The system is set up so that two are of the majority party and the third is of the minority party.
Though he is part of the minority party, a shrewd John Kerry also could use Congress as a helpful political ground.
As leader of the minority party in the state legislature, he proved he could work with the uncoolest of them all.
Most Republicans have dismissed the proposal as a blatant executive power grab that will significantly weaken both the Congress and the minority party.
So we went to battle against the lobbyists and a minority party that was united in their support of this outrageous status quo.
Some of you represent a minority party as a governor, yet you get on very well with -- you accomplish things in your home state.
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The problem is, is that they're in the minority party and don't have the levers of power to force Tom DeLay to call legislation that is introduced.
The Senate has yet to establish whether the minority party can be prevented from filibustering judges who have made it through committee to the floor of the Senate.
Mr Colmenares is from a minority party, and he is likely to face a tough challenge, not just from opponents in Congress but also the powerful Catholic Church.
Both parties have been pushed towards their respective extremes, but one party must rule and so the effects on the Republicans, as the minority party, have been worse.
For starters, it makes members of the minority party dependent on the ability of the majority party to advance a budget if they all are to be paid.
The Republican Party in California has been a permanent minority party since 1994 when it backed Proposition 187, a law nearly identical to the Arizona Republican adopted last year.
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Republicans could be counted on to do that when they were a minority party in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, and during two momentary lapses in 1982 and 1990.
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In other respects, governing as a large minority party might not be much trickier than governing with a small majority, which leaves prime ministers perpetually vulnerable to backbench rebellions.
We are the majority party, and therefore we are going to be sitting on the government side, because we expect the minority party to sit on the opposition benches.
And oftentimes, particularly when you're in the minority party, you're voting on legislation that you had no input in that strikes compromises that you yourself would not want to strike.
That's because to control the Senate, the minority party would need to reach 51 seats, which means a net gain of six (assuming the independent from Vermont still votes with the Democrats).
Still, for years afterwards the Republicans were able to wield great influence as a minority party thanks to a rule that required a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers to pass a budget.
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That, in turn, depends on the two parties splitting the remaining seats 49-50, with the vice-president (who casts the deciding vote in the case of a 50-50 tie) coming from the minority party.
"When we were in the minority party, we had as our responsibility to continuously rail against the failure of the majority party to balance the budget and handle certain key issues well, " Greenwood said.
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