Two years ago the AFL-CIO's ads failed to return the House to Democratic control.
Gephardt has publicly said many times that his biggest political priority is to restore the House of Representatives to Democratic control.
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Democratic control of the Senate also meant that Bush's appointments to the government's judicial branch had a much harder time at confirmation.
Were Turkey applying to join the alliance now, it would probably be told to put its armed forces under democratic control first.
But despite Democratic control of Congress, it will not be easy.
One of the arguments I often see against this sort of free schooling is that it removes democratic control from what is taught and how it is taught.
What teetered in the balance that week was not only the whole fabric of Russian-American relations since the cold war, but the principle of democratic control over Russia's army.
Giuliani filed papers to form a Presidential exploratory committee last November 10th, three days after the voter rebuke of Republicans that narrowly placed both houses of Congress under Democratic control.
The logic is that because it is hard to introduce choice and competition into policing, only democratic control can empower the public, who currently feel that supposedly minor crimes are neglected.
Dole had run in the 1980 Presidential primaries, but was trounced by Ronald Reagan, whose win in the general election helped the Republicans take over the Senate, after twenty-six years of Democratic control.
The threat that many Republicans perceive with an aggressive attack on Sotomayor is that they would simply aggravate these negative trends and lose anyway, given Democratic control of Congress and her credentials.
Mr Obama won the presidency while campaigning on a similar proposal, but did not get it enacted when Congress was under Democratic control, and now faces implacable opposition to the idea from Republicans, who dismiss it, as usual, as class warfare.
The House and the Senate, now under Democratic control, feel driven by the results of the elections in November, also feel driven by the results of polls that they're looking at that show roughly three in five Americans want to have some sort of timetable for a withdrawal.
If Microsoft is going to roll out digital rights management in software that will be used by many European companies, surely the European Commission or our MEPs should be taking an interest - before we find that we have given up any possibility of asserting proper democratic control over this important technology?
Expanded background checks are the core of the Democratic gun control drive.
The chances of a thorough investigation in the US increased after the Democratic Party took control of Congress last year.
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It was true under Democratic and Republican control of Congress.
One was that they're trying to insulate themselves from any accusations that might come out of investigations that are likely to be launched into the conduct of the war, if and when the Democratic Party takes control of one or both houses of Congress.
While treaty abrogation is always available in theory, the politics of arms control in democratic nations makes it impractical.
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The departure of Graham, one of Florida's most popular politicians, is another blow to Democratic hopes of reclaiming control of the closely divided Senate next year.
Pledges by democratic states to respond promptly and forcefully to any violation of an arms control arrangement with a non-democratic state have often proven hollow when the time for action came.
Jeff Klein, leader of the Independent Democratic Conference that shares majority control of the Senate with Republicans.
Mr Clinton has retained control of the Democratic National Committee, through Mr McAuliffe.
After his arrest, he was kicked out of the small group of Democratic senators who share majority control of the Senate with Republicans.
The Congolese government, with the help of the largest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world, is attempting to regain control over the Democratic Republic of Congo.
More than a quarter of a century on, Mr Ecevit is feared within his party (now named the Democratic Left) as a control freak who delegates little responsibility.
The Independent Democratic Conference, which shares control of the Senate with Republicans, said the Geisinger study and two other reviews on drinking water must be completed before Gov. Andrew Cuomo settles the 5-year-old debate.
The Assembly's Democratic majority wants a two-year moratorium, while the Independent Democratic Conference, which shares control of the Senate, has a bill that would delay action until the Geisinger report and lesser studies are complete.
Polls show that the Democratic Party is likely to lose control over the House of Representatives.
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