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.
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.
And so far, it's had enough support in the majority party in the House and the Senate to keep this from coming up.
Once again in the middle of the night, the majority party in the Assembly voted to expand taxpayer-funded vouchers for religious and private schools.
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Barmak Nassirian, with the American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers, says the lobbying campaign targets the majority party in Congress the Democrats.
The law also denies a place for the second minority in Congress in order to make it easier for the majority party to exercise influence.
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First, leaders of the majority party are actually responsible for the bonus payments and are proposing bad tax policy to distract the public from this fact.
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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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.
So as the majority party continues its internal struggle, the immigration bill the President called his top priority this year may not be going anywhere before the fall elections.
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.
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.
The upshot is a striking indeed amazing fact: the majority party in the largest military power in the world has no policy regarding the first full-scale war in Europe for 50 years.
They believe this would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new dues that could be diverted for political agitation, thus making liberal Democrats--who are pro-labor--the majority party for the foreseeable future.
They believe this would generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new dues that could be diverted for political agitation, thus making liberal Democrats who are pro-labor the majority party for the foreseeable future.
"When we were in the minority party, we had as our responsibility to continuously rail against the failure of the majority party to balance the budget and handle certain key issues well, " Greenwood said.
So, unlike health care, political imperatives make compromise much more probable for financial reform, even though Democrats would seem to gain more from passing a bill than would Republicans, who want to deny legislative successes for the majority party.
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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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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The presiding officer of the Senate freshmen of the majority party take rotating, hour-long shifts intended to introduce them to the ways of the institution sits in his chair on the dais, scanning his BlackBerry or reading a Times article about the Senate.
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.
Rep. MATHESON: Well, I think we fit in quite well because - not just in this election we just had, but if you go back over the past three or four elections, the vast majority of seats that Democrats have picked up that have now ultimately given the Democratic Party the majority have been Blue Dogs.
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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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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