The Senate is now in the process of using reconciliation — rule by simple majority — to try to pass health care.

现在，参议院正在试图通过和谐化（reconciliation）——简单多数人的统治——来通过医改法案。

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That changed in 2008 when the conservative majority struck down a federal rule that had tripled the limit on campaign contributions for a candidate outspent by a rich, self-financed opponent.

而2008年，事情发生了变化。保守党的大多数打破了联邦规定- - -一个有钱的竞选者给一个候选人捐助了三倍于捐款上限的资金。

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One rule, championed by Georgia's House majority leader, banned them from living within 1,000 feet of a school bus stop.

为乔治亚州多数议员所拥护的一项规则是禁止这些人居住在距离学校公车站一千英尺以内的地方。

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Indeed, in Jaffna, TNA leaflets claimed that to vote for the ruling coalition would be to subject the peninsula to rule by Sri Lanka's mainly-Buddhist Sinhala majority.

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It requires fresh elections, early next year, for a new, single-chamber Congress, so Mr Chavez (whose rule may be ratified by referendum) will doubtless gain the legislative majority he lacks.

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It effectively created two 'Home Rule' states by partitioning Ireland into the six counties of Protestant majority in the north east - Northern Ireland - and the rest of Ireland - Southern Ireland.

BBC: N. Ireland Politics