He emphasised understanding the power of the Chamber to achieve your political goals.
Minority leader Tom Daschle will probably meet with majority leader Trent Lott this week to demand that the two sides share power in the chamber.
MPs are keen to see any shift of power towards the second chamber.
But, compared with the alternative of a second chamber with real power and real legitimacy, it's a sad end to the hopes and promises of the first term.
The Chief Minister, Terry Le Sueur, made a statement in the States Chamber earlier about Deputy Power resigning.
The DPJ and its partner can lose a majority in the chamber and still remain in power because they control the more powerful lower house.
Mr Berlusconi's main ally, Umberto Bossi of the Northern League, whose votes keep the prime minister in power, was noticeably absent from the chamber during his speech.
Daschle also said Democrats and Republicans would continue to share presiding duties in the chamber, part of the power-sharing agreement reached when the Senate was split 50-50.
Labour peer Lord Lea accused the government of appointing extra peers since coming to power last May to add pressure on the second chamber and make the case for reform.
Republicans have held the chamber for the past 12 years, taking power in the midterm election of President Clinton's first term.
The difference between turbocharging and supercharging is simple: a turbocharger boosts engine air pressure by using exhaust gas to power a turbine that pushes more air into the combustion chamber.
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An intellectual argument says that it would be a bad thing anyway, because the present concentration of power (and therefore accountability) in a single elected chamber is an acknowledged strength of Britain's governing arrangements.
So far Euro-11 has operated as an informal ante-chamber to Ecofin, meeting beforehand and lacking its power to legislate.
But a bill to facilitate the power line is now hotly contested and while it cleared one chamber, it is now tied up in the state senate.
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Even its current, diminished performance, repeated at the general election that has to be held by next spring, would give M5S about 80 of the seats in the 630-seat lower house Chamber of Deputies and, perhaps, the balance of power.
Indeed, their power to block reform, through their representation in the federal republic's second chamber, the Bundesrat, may nowadays be too much.
Thursday's was a defeat for Senate Republican leaders who looked to this vote as the first test of their power to display unity in the minority in steering Bush's agenda through the chamber.
Amid applause, disabled power-lifter and councillor Jade Farrington said she was "deeply ashamed to be sharing the council chamber with Collin Brewer".
Conventional four-stroke engines produce power by moving a piston up and down using rapid explosions of fuel and air in a cylindrical chamber.
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The chamber is air tight so the biogas let off from the little digesters can be captured and used to power the steam generator that run the stills.
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