These legislators share an ideological commitment to the ABM Treaty and the arms-control house of cards built upon it.
The government introduced a series of restrictions to control house purchases in several cities this year, requiring higher down payments and bringing in property taxes for the first time.
It looks like the Republicans will continue to control the House of Representatives, while Democrats will either control the Senate or have filibuster power there.
Republicans had clear control in the House and firm control (although not a supermajority) in the Senate.
You know, David, you know very well, you'd have said this to them some seven or eight years ago, you'd have said 'you're finished, you won't get back, it will be three generations before you're back, ' they're back in power in the White House, they control the lower house.
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The point is that Democrats control the House, the Senate, and the White House.
This makes them less influential than they should be, even when Democrats control the House.
Republicans control the House of Representatives - the lower chamber of Congress - but not the Senate.
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It would be terrible if the Democrats were to control the House, the Senate and the Presidency.
Republicans, who will probably still control the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate, may realise this.
Why, you ask, would either party want to control the House of Representatives?
The tax is supported by the state's governor, Gary Locke, along with his fellow Democrats who control the House and the Senate.
The Republicans control the House with a 235 to 199 majority.
Now the Republicans control the House, the Senate and 30 states.
He also conceded that the next two years, when Republicans control the House, will still include partisan fights over tax treatment for the wealthy and spending priorities.
The 2012 Presidential electorate should be more ideologically balanced, and the anger of independent voters may not be exclusively be targeted at Democrats now that Republicans control one house of Congress.
But those plans may run into flak as Republican lawmakers take control of House committees and subcommittees that oversee NASA, according to industry officials, including competitors, critical of Lockheed Martin's efforts.
While the Democrats see corporate scandals as a way of diminishing Mr Bush's popularity, the Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, worry that their party may not look tough enough.
In a formal speech on Capitol Hill Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner sounded conciliatory even as he made it clear higher tax rates would be unacceptable to Republicans who control the House.
It's the first time since 1974 that Democrats have picked up three Republican House seats via special elections in a single cycle. (See last week's column.) Democrats now control the House 236-199.
But he has left open the possibility that the Republicans who control the House could amend the legislation to make it more to their liking, and then send it back to the Senate.
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While the Republicans who now control the House of Representatives generally support privacy, they are unlikely to support any bill to expand the enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission, GOP congressional aides say.
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With Republicans continuing to control the House the Senate proposal would be an exercise in futility, but at the very least, this shows that the Buffett Rule is viewed by Democrats as viable tax policy.
The Republicans, who now control the House of Representatives, are widely expected to tackle unemployment and a slowdown in GDP growth by calling for a revival of income tax cuts initiated by President George W. Bush.
That and the reality that Republicans still control the House and can block most anything in the Senate, is why Obama is likely to spend most of the next year or two struggling with budget issues even as he consolidates health reform.
But Wall Street money mavens know that not only can they bully the SEC to delay or snuff the fiduciary rule as long as Republicans control key House committees, they can channel the all-important flow of money to get those anti-investor Congressmen re-elected.
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Thus, even if Mitt Romney is elected president, Barack Obama will still be in the White House when the master deal must be struck, the Democrats will still have a majority in the Senate, and the GOP will still be able to filibuster and control the House.
All I can say to all of you is thank you and thank you for more than just George Bush and myself, thank you, because if the trend continues, we may very well control one house of the Congress for the first time in a quarter of a century.
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