Democrats, who control the chamber, privately say that's not something they are likely to allow.
Senate Democrats, who currently control the chamber, have a very different prescription-drug plan for Medicare.
Even in the Senate, where Democrats control the chamber, Democratic leadership sources told CNN that passing any new legislation will be extremely difficult.
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Bersani's forces control the Chamber of Deputies, but not the Senate.
House Republicans, who control the chamber, reject any increased tax revenue as a solution, setting up another in a series of congressional showdowns over spending and taxes that dominated Obama's first term.
In 1994, House Republicans surprised the country by taking control of the chamber from the corrupt and complacent Democrats.
Republicans need to win 40 seats to take back control of the chamber.
In the House, Democrats added to their 2006 gains, when they picked up more than two dozen seats and took control of the chamber.
The Michigan Republican has been the principal architect of House GOP tax plans since the party took control of the chamber after the 2010 elections.
Meanwhile, the Senate Republicans who share control of the chamber slammed Cuomo's budget for extending the life of a tax on businesses that was to expire.
But almost all the close contests would have to break the Republicans' way to give them control of the chamber an outcome most analysts consider unlikely, although not impossible.
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Elimination of the estate tax has remained on the House GOP leadership's agenda since the party took control of the chamber in the wake of the 1994 midterm elections.
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Somewhat contradictorily, they are decrying the attack on the Senate's traditions even as they threaten similar acts of vengeance should they win control of the chamber at the next election.
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Libous and the Senate Republicans who share control of the chamber haven't acted on a bill by the Assembly's Democratic majority for a moratorium on fracking as more studies are completed.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, decided to make the patients' bill of rights the first major piece of legislation taken up since Democrats took control of the chamber earlier this month.
The very core of Mr Kohl's attempt to rejuvenate the economy a drastic overhaul of the tax system has finally crumbled under pressure from the Social Democrats, who control the second chamber of parliament, the Bundesrat.
"We haven't seen the governor's proposal yet, but we do know that it's either an extreme measure to expand late-term abortion or an unnecessary and purely political maneuver, " said Kelly Cummings, spokeswoman for the Senate Republicans who share control of the chamber and can block a bill from a floor vote.
Republicans retained narrow control of the House, but the Senate is split 50-50, with former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney's election as vice president giving the GOP nominal control over the upper chamber.
The bickering over the president reflects the divisions that lawmakers have been unable to overcome since the Feb. 24-25 national elections that saw the center-left win control of the lower Chamber of Deputies but fail to do so in the Senate.
He won a third term in 2008, and his conservative coalition has control of both the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
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No less significant, he did so after winning overwhelming, bipartisan support for the liberation of Iraq from a Congress that had one chamber in Democratic control.
Republicans control the House of Representatives - the lower chamber of Congress - but not the Senate.
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Letta's center-left forces, while winning a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, failed to control the Senate, forcing the Democratic Party, after weeks of embarrassing infighting, to forge an alliance with Berlusconi.
With control of the House comes the ability to set the chamber's agenda, and a stronger hand in setting Congress' legislative agenda.
The DPJ and its partner can lose a majority in the chamber and still remain in power because they control the more powerful lower house.
Later, Downing Street sought to play down the Commons clash, saying that the Prime Minister had known of the impending resignation - but he believed that confirming this to the chamber would leave the party open to accusations of control freakery.
Concern on the Labour benches relates to growing criticism that the government will open itself up to charges of "control freakery" and cronyism by allowing a majority of members in the reformed chamber to be appointed.
Democrats control the Senate, but if Republicans pick off these seats they could take the chamber.
The Democratic Party and its centre-left allies won a narrow victory in the Chamber of Deputies, but the Senate appears split with no party in control.
There are signs, including a rather large billboard in Times Square, that SOPA allies like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and movie and recording interests are still committed to fighting for more control over Internet content, ostensibly to further reduce copyright infringement online.
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