More proof the Republican party wants to hand this country to the corporations

[Intense]

You lied peach

What did I lie about - Dems took control in 2006

109th Congress
November 7, 2006 — California Representative Nancy Pelosi and Nevada Senator Harry Reid lead the Democratic Party in taking control of both the House and the Senate in the 2006 congressional elections, the first time in 12 years the Democrats secure control of both houses of Congress simultaneously.

2007.

Membership of the 109th Congress: A Profile
Mildred Amer
Specialist in American National Government
Government and Finance Division
Summary
This report presents a profile of the membership of the 109th Congress. Statistical
information is included on selected characteristics of Members, including data on party
affiliation, average age and length of service, occupation, religious affiliation, female
and minority Members, foreign-born Members, and military service.
Currently, in the House of Representatives, there are 231 Republicans (including
the Resident Commissioner), 206 Democrats (including four Delegates), and one
Independent, who is aligned with the Democrats. The Senate has 55 Republicans, 44
Democrats, and one Independent, who is aligned with the Democrats.
The average age of Members of both houses, at the convening of the 109th
Congress, was 56 years; of Representatives, 55 years; and of Senators, 60 years. The
overwhelming majority of Members has a college education. The dominant profession
of Members continues to be law, followed by public service/politics and business.
Protestants collectively constitute the majority

http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RS22007.pdf

 

[Intense]

Democrats Take Control on Hill


By Jonathan Weisman and Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, January 5, 2007

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was elected America's first female speaker of the House yesterday in a raucous, bipartisan celebration of a historic breakthrough, and hours later she presided over passage of the broadest ethics and lobbying revision since the Watergate era.

Democrats took control of the House and Senate after 12 years of nearly unbroken Republican rule, with resolute calls for bipartisan comity and a pledge to move quickly on an agenda of health-care, homeland security, education and energy proposals. Sen. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), the soft-spoken son of a hard-rock miner, took the helm of the Senate, after a closed-door session in the Capitol's stately Old Senate Chamber. But with the eyes of history riveted on her, it was Pelosi's day.

Democrats Take Control on Hill

If one can believe the Bullshit that accompanied this announcement.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Another lame TDM thread.

Jesus. I guess she has nothing better to do.

Saul Alinsky would be proud

 

[peach174]

Ok
I thought that HR 6407 was passed in 2007. I was wrong. It was passed on 12/20/2006
It was introduced By a Repub Susan Collins but many Dems helped to write the bill
Plus the input by the Unions.

Thanks to NALC and a coalition of other unions (the Rural Letter Carriers and the Mail Handlers), management associations, vendors and mailers, Congress rejected almost all the negative recommendations of President Bush’s blue-ribbon Commission on the Postal Service. Instead it crafted a balanced compromise that emphasized pragmatism over ideology.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) were instrumental in negotiating the final details with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), the bill’s chief sponsor in the Senate. In an e-Activist message sent on December 9, NALC President Bill Young thanked Waxman and Carper for advocating NALC’s interests in the legislation. He also thanked Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Daniel Akaka (D-HI), and Reps. Tom Davis (R-VA), Danny Davis (D-IL) and John McHugh (R-NY) for their roles over the years.

The bill passed when none of the postal unions (including the APWU, which now claims to oppose the bill) and none of the other major stakeholders sought to prevent its adoption under unanimous consent rules in the Senate.

 

[merrill]

The republican party majority is truly a party of facist pigs plain and simple.

 

[Intense]

The republican party majority is truly a party of facist pigs plain and simple.

You are a lame Idiot. A blind man/Woman throwing stones with no regard. Federalism is not about Fascist Control.

 

[Intense]

Ok
I thought that HR 6407 was passed in 2007. I was wrong. It was passed on 12/20/2006
It was introduced By a Repub Susan Collins but many Dems helped to write the bill
Plus the input by the Unions.

Thanks to NALC and a coalition of other unions (the Rural Letter Carriers and the Mail Handlers), management associations, vendors and mailers, Congress rejected almost all the negative recommendations of President Bush’s blue-ribbon Commission on the Postal Service. Instead it crafted a balanced compromise that emphasized pragmatism over ideology.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) were instrumental in negotiating the final details with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), the bill’s chief sponsor in the Senate. In an e-Activist message sent on December 9, NALC President Bill Young thanked Waxman and Carper for advocating NALC’s interests in the legislation. He also thanked Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Daniel Akaka (D-HI), and Reps. Tom Davis (R-VA), Danny Davis (D-IL) and John McHugh (R-NY) for their roles over the years.

The bill passed when none of the postal unions (including the APWU, which now claims to oppose the bill) and none of the other major stakeholders sought to prevent its adoption under unanimous consent rules in the Senate.

Well stated.

 

[Truthmatters]

You lied peach

What did I lie about - Dems took control in 2006

109th Congress
November 7, 2006 — California Representative Nancy Pelosi and Nevada Senator Harry Reid lead the Democratic Party in taking control of both the House and the Senate in the 2006 congressional elections, the first time in 12 years the Democrats secure control of both houses of Congress simultaneously.

Duration: January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2007

they dont actually take control until January

 

[Truthmatters]

I came back to this thread to revoke my claim of a lie by you peach because you put a profile post appologising for your mistake.

If it was a mistake then its no big deal and you did a classy thing by admitting you were mistaken.

dont hide appologies if you have the class to give one.

 

[Claudette]

The bottom line is that if the PO didn't have to come up with 5 billion at the beginning of each year they wouldn't be in the damned hole every year.

Perhaps their beni's shouldn't be as lavish as the probably are??

 

[Photonic]

I think that.... perhaps.... truffmocker is afraid of the big bad corporations.

Big surprise there, so was Thomas Jefferson.