So we have a Washington reset that is essentially the status quo squared: Democrats in the White House and firmly in control of the Senate, while Republicans hold the House of Representatives.
They will lose 12 seats but hold the House by a 220 to 215 majority.
Republicans are expected to hold the House following the elections today, a move that Boehner says constitutes a mandate.
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Republicans hope to hold the House and Senate for four consecutive congressional sessions for the first time since the 1920s.
The same tide that would take Mr Romney into the White House would, one should assume, probably win the Republicans the Senate and continue their hold on the House.
They note that President George W. Bush's Justice Department refused to take any action after a Democratic-controlled House voted in early 2008 to hold then-White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and then-White House Counsel Harriet Miers in contempt for actions relating to the controversial dismissal of several U.S. prosecutors.
But some House Republicans, who hold a majority in the House of Representatives have suggested that action on gun legislation was premature and that they were focused on the tragedy.
Armey also dismissed the idea that McCain is critical to the Republican effort to hold onto the House in 2002.
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Before migrating each location to the new system, the IT department would hold an open house at the site to give users a preview of the new system and let them try it out, he said.
But you see in stories I read in the New York Times, the LA Times, as well as the Washington Post, that every once in a while a servicer tries to work with the people in order to help them hold onto the house when they're in a tight situation.
Mr Boehner, the Republican likely to become speaker of the House when the next Congress convenes in January, said four legislators - one from each party from both the House and Senate - would hold talks soon with the White House to negotiate a resolution to the tax issue.
The House Republicans hold their leadership elections a day later, on Friday, and they, too, have decisions to make.
The local authority will hold workshops at Lochaber House in Fort William on 18 April from 15:00-19:00 to help residents draw up plans.
Christopher Dodd, in a New York Times piece yesterday, was suggesting that perhaps the White House should hold a summit to bridge the gaps and so forth.
The mask is about four metres tall - so large that it takes a hundred men six months of work to prepare the costume and build an outdoor house to hold it before a performance.
Thanks to congressional redistricting, Republicans were able to hold on to the House of Representatives, and Cook said that the Party could probably keep it for the foreseeable future, but he warned that the prospects of winning back the Senate, and the White House, would require dramatic change.
Altmire, who lost a primary battle to colleague Rep. Mark Critz after redistricting landed the pair in the same district, told O'Brien that he voted in favor of contempt because it was consistent with his vote to hold Bush administration White House Counsel Harriet Miers in contempt in 2008.
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House GOP leaders said immediately they would hold a vote on Friday, which left House Democrats in a pickle.
Whoever wins the lower house at the next general election, due by 2013, is unlikely to hold a majority in the upper house.
Suppose you're flush enough to hold on to your old house as an investment.
The country is set to dissolve the lower house today and hold elections on December 16.
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In the current House, Republicans hold 230 seats, Democrats hold 201, with one independent who usually votes with Democrats.
The Republicans are still very likely to hold a majority in the House of Representatives in the next Congress.
House Republicans will hold leadership elections next Wednesday, with Boehner and other top leaders expected to stay in their posts.
It only put the house bubble on hold and prepared (by way of ridiculously low interest rates) the great inflation of 2003 to 2005.
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