Lieberman unable to flip Senate anymore

Thorgrim · 01-19-2007, 12:04 AM

This is due to the fact that the Senate passed a resolution on January 12 (S.Res. 27) that designates various Democrats by name as committee chairs and specifies the Democratic members of each committee. The Senate also passed a similar resolution (S. Res. 28) the same day that names various Republicans as the ranking minority members of each committee and specifies the Republican members of each committee. Based on these two resolutions, the membership of each standing committee in the Senate appears to be fixed for the duration of this Congress. Further, it includes one more Democratic member than it does Republican members in each case, thereby providing Democrats with control of the committee system and the flow of legislation in the Senate.

Daily Kos: Lieberman is powerless to flip the Senate to the Republicans

Pretty good diary, now that we're "stuck" with a Democratic Congrses until 2008 what does this mean? Since the committees can go "overboard" like Lieberman warned them not to...

kinggovernor · 01-19-2007, 12:17 AM

and what happens if he flips AND they overturn the resolution?

Thorgrim · 01-19-2007, 12:21 AM

Originally Posted by kinggovernor

and what happens if he flips AND they overturn the resolution?

They'd need 60 votes and 10 Dems wouldn't cave, this isn't 2000 when the Senate was 50-50 and the GOP instituted special rules that were easy to cause a flip