Eighty Democrats and two Republicans voted for the bill, which needed 71 votes to pass.
And finally we got two Republicans to vote for it -- out of 41.
Of those 34 incumbents, five senators -- three Democrats and two Republicans -- are retiring.
As noted by the The Hill, the new rules were opposed by the two Republicans on the Commission.
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The White House hopes that Senate Republicans will favor the five-member package nomination of two Republicans and three Democrats.
As advertised, the winners were moderates, and some races indeed ended with two Republicans or two Democrats in the run-off.
Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, two Republicans with no hope in Iowa but national reputations, are biding their time.
In such a system, a Republican and a Democrat might face off in the general election, or two Republicans or two Democrats.
It is not a coincidence that two Republicans, Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, have made the most successful leaps from screen to politics.
That means winning over at least two Republicans in each chamber.
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In fact, since 1950, only two Republicans have made it to the White House without winning Pennsylvania -- Richard Nixon in 1968 and George W. Bush.
While the SEC waits for the fifth commissioner to break the deadlock between the two Republicans and two Democrats who remain, the risk of gridlock and further delays grows daily.
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Three of the races went to incumbents who were relative short-timers -- two Republicans and one Democrat -- while two Democrats and one Republican picked up the other three, all open seats.
The measure combines anti-trafficking elements contributed by three Democrats, Leahy, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, with elements contributed by two Republicans, Illinois Senator Mark Kirk and Maine Senator Susan Collins.
The recent signals coming from the Bush administration so angered Congressman Donald Payne that he, another Democrat and two Republicans wrote to Secretary of State Rice to find out why the US is changing its tone on Darfur.
Open seats are more likely to flip, and so far only two Republicans are retiring (Georgia's Saxby Chambliss and Nebraska's Mike Johanns) while six Democrats are, including three in states handily carried by Mr. Romney (West Virginia, South Dakota and Montana).
Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon were two Republicans who pragmatically accepted that Americans had come to expect that the federal government would protect against certain risks and that trying to reverse politics to the pre-New Deal period would be politically suicidal.
Similarly, if just two Republicans can threaten to kill a budget bill by talking it to death (as happened last month), then there is nothing Mr Hastert can do about that either, except to pull the bill from the floor of the House.
" It reiterated that the goal of Grassley's negotiations with five other members of the Senate Finance Committee -- three Democrats and two Republicans, including Enzi -- was "to see if it's possible to develop an alternative that would improve the system and, as a result, get widespread support.
The election ended in a tie between Jefferson and his running mate, Aaron Burr. (At the time, the Electoral College cast its ballots without distinguishing between president and vice president, and the two Republicans each got 73 electoral votes, throwing the decision to the House of Representatives.) It took 36 ballots before the House awarded Jefferson the presidency.
Seven of them moved from the Democrats to the Republicans and two former Republicans declared themselves Independents.
Hatch said the task force, which he says Lott supports, would be led by Specter and consist of two other Republicans and two Democrats.
Then, one day in the 1990s, she and Mr Franco had lunch with two local Republicans.
Moments later, Hayworth and some two hundred Republicans burst out of the meeting room.
Burr, 48, a five-time representative in the House, easily beat two other Republicans in the July 20 primary.
At the same time, they kicked out the committee chairman and two other Republicans who'd voted to admonish DeLay.
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