Before then, they had not been the majority party in the House since Dwight D.
Under the rules, the majority party called two witnesses and the minority party one.
During those 14 years, I was -- 12 of those years I was in the majority party.
These trends suggest that the current administration and the majority party in Congress must adjust their strategy.
But the charter-drafters wanted to make it harder for any other dominant majority party to emerge in future.
As the majority party, Democrats currently receive a bigger share of contributions from the finance industry than do Republicans.
The system is set up so that two are of the majority party and the third is of the minority party.
Greenberg believes that only by massively expanding government programs for the American middle class can the Democrats become a natural majority party.
And so far, it's had enough support in the majority party in the House and the Senate to keep this from coming up.
The bill with majority party sponsors proposes a casino with 2, 000 video slot machines run by the off-track betting agencies in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
The LDP lost its majority for the first time since the 1960s, while the DPJ became the majority party, winning 54 of the assembly's 127 seats.
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They did so because, at least for the past decade, the majority party has been the one to engineer the necessary support for increasing the debt ceiling.
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If the Senate majority party is working as hard as it can to force us to withdraw, then why should our nominal Iraqi allies cooperate with us?
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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.
Such gerrymandering can be extremely partisan when the majority party in a legislature draws districts that favour its candidates, as the Republicans did in Texas a decade ago.
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.
"Now that the Democrats have started to make the tough choices that a majority party always has to make, they are becoming less popular, " said Keating Holland, CNN polling director.
But Essam Erian, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and leader of the majority party in Egypt's upper house of Parliament, criticized the proposed boycott.
As long as a figure like Bob Michel was Minority Leader and the Republicans were tame, malleable creatures -- content with a little pork and to accept dhimmitude under the Democrats -- the Majority party had no problem with them.
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This year, Democrats -- just 11 seats shy of majority party status in the 106th Congress -- are eyeing two more Republican seats: the politically competitive 1st District in the southeast and the Democratic-leaning 2nd, which includes Madison, the state capital.
The case began last week when a package addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived at his majority Conservative Party headquarters, and a hand was later found at a post office addressed to the minority Liberal Party, authorities said.
This isn't a personal point against Ken Clarke, I am a friend of Ken's, I think he's a great guy, but when we're talking about the leadership of the party I think it's important that you have a leader who speaks for the majority of the party on a major issue such as Europe and the Euro.
Who speaks for the majority of the party on the major issues, including Europe.
Fall short, and the era in which majority single-party governments were the Canadian norm will unarguably have ended.
Mr Orban has been able to push through changes because of the two-thirds majority his Fidesz party and its allies enjoy in parliament, following the 2010 election.
Once again he stood against the mainstream, by facing down the majority of Green Party members who opposed the participation of German forces in the Kosovo campaign.
He would ensure the independence of a nominated house by putting appointments in the hands of an independent commission, and ruling out a majority for any party.
In a poll earlier this year by the Mellman Group, a majority of tea party supporters favored putting taxes on imports from countries with lower environmental standards than the United States.
All of this analysis points to a robust competition between the two parties over the past two decades, with no permanent winners or losers and no emerging natural majority for either party.
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Republicans lost seats in the GOP-controlled House, failed to capitalize on a once-promising shot at winning the Senate majority and the party's presidential nominee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, failed to unseat Obama.
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