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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow many years have Democrats controlled both houses?
Let's say since the Bill Clinton era.
And in those years how many did we have a 60 vote majority in the Senate?
Anyone have a chart? Link?
RandySF
(57,661 posts)Since Bill Clinton:
Both Houses:
1993-1995
2007-2011
Senate alone:
2001-2003
2011-2015
SHRED
(28,136 posts)RandySF
(57,661 posts)But we never really had that, either because of Lieberman. We passed the ACA on a majority vote based on a Senate rule.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)before Ted Kennedy went down with Brain Cancer.
The Right's propaganda program (think tanks, buying media outlets, politicizing churches) has been very effective.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)We had Congress during the first two years of Pres. Clinton's term. We have only had the presidency twice in 30 years and both times the president was abandoned during the first mid term.
Exotica
(1,461 posts)2 times
In 2009 and 2010
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/did-the-democrats-ever-really-have-60-votes-in-the-senate-and-for-how-long/
What this shows is is that there were only two time periods during the 111th Congress when the Democrats had a 60 seat majority:
From July 7. 2009 (when Al Franken was officially seated as the Senator from Minnesota after the last of Norm Colemans challenges came to an end) to August 25, 2009 (when Ted Kennedy died, although Kennedys illness had kept him from voting for several weeks before that date at least); and
From September 25, 2009 (when Paul Kirk was appointed to replace Kennedy) to February 4, 2010 (when Scott Brown took office after defeating Martha Coakley);
For one day in September 2009, Republicans lacked 40 votes due to the resignation of Mel Martinez, who was replaced the next day by George LeMieux
So, to the extent there was a filibuster proof majority in the Senate it lasted during two brief periods which lasted for a total of just over five months when counted altogether (and Congress was in its traditional summer recess for most of the July-August 2009 time frame).
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Rigging the electorate probably occurred before that, but that is when I first recall a big fight about the obvious unfairness via gerrymandering.
Tom Delay, the bug sprayer guy.