Ultimately, the success of his initiatives will determine whether majorities regain confidence in government.
Majorities in every state where there is data available overwhelmingly support background checks -- every state.
In Germany, for instance, workers form near majorities on the boards of major corporations.
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Despite sympathies for Medicare recipients, significant majorities are worried about the future costs of the program.
But overwhelming bipartisan majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate saw things differently.
But when asked whether judicial nominees deserve an up-or-down vote, big majorities say yes.
Democrats won the Presidency with a history-making candidate and had sizeable majorities in Congress.
The DPJ's hopes of governing majorities in both houses would then be in jeopardy.
Republicans highlight polls that suggest that clear majorities support lifting the ban on offshore drilling.
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In 1965, Lyndon Johnson had Democratic congressional majorities sufficient to pass any legislation he wanted.
He was fairly cavalier about working hard to keep those majorities in the mid-term elections.
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The day the Democrat Congressional majorities took office, January 3, 2007, the unemployment rate was 4.6%.
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But Mr Mitchell enjoyed the luxury of large majorities in both the Senate and the House.
MPs vote on English matters, might in practice produce rival parliamentary majorities, deadlock and chaos.
So with no boundary changes, there will be fewer Tory MPs seeing their majorities reduced.
Democratic majorities are likely to shrink or even vanish, increasing the deadlock on Capitol Hill.
No Republican holds statewide office in California, and the Democrats enjoy wide majorities in both chambers.
Last August, however, Mr. Clinton signed legislation adopted by veto-proof majorities in both houses.
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In parliamentary systems, stable majorities need to be sustained, encouraging the distribution of pork all round.
Polls have recorded majorities ranging from a half to two-thirds in favour of a cut.
The optimists point out that it takes only a few moderate legislators to make super-majorities possible.
Imagine today's Congress passing, by bipartisan majorities, legislation on two controversial issues: taxes and immigration reform.
But majorities also tell Pew's researchers that they are worried about American values and lifestyles.
He had every opportunity to propose and pass a budget when he had Democratic majorities in Congress.
Realistically, their challenge is to make significant inroads into those Conservative majorities, especially in Staffordshire and Warwickshire.
Two-thirds agreed with this, including majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents as well as all age groups.
Illinois Democrats won veto-proof majorities in both chambers of the Legislature and picked up seats in Congress.
Still, for whatever reason -- given his majorities in the Congress -- it was now or never.
Because congressional majorities, opinions and ideologies change with alarming rapidity as public opinion ebbs and flows.
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But with Democrats holding much thinner majorities in Congress--or, possibly, none at all--the VAT will go nowhere.
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