If he maintains his seat while he recovers who has the ture majority in the Senate? That is to say there could be tie votes that the sitting VPO may have to caste votes in. So how should the Senate truely be org'd in a fair fashion.
No digs here it just occured to me over the weekend see with 2 independants and the present break down of votes it appears no one truely has control of the senate and it may came down to an issue by issue vote or voting. So what are your thoughts?
2006-12-18 02:57:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Actaully I do not recall anything like this happening, but my memory has been effected. So I thought I'd throw out this question to see what kind of response it would get. I will be researching into this matter because well it seems very confusing. My point was not to say the democrats did not have the power, but rather not the absolute votes.
2006-12-18 03:15:26 · update #1
He's a democrat and still a member of the senate. Nothing has changed. The rules are that the party with the majority of the seats has control. Independents can choose to caucus with one party or the other. In this case Lieberman and the guy from Vermont have both chosen to caucus with the dems. That hasn't changed either.
Rarely are votes 100% down party lines. There is almost always crossover so a majority this slim has less of an impact. The dems still have control over committee assignments and the agenda, namely what is ultimately brought to the floor for a vote.
2006-12-18 03:10:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
With the two independents saying that they are caucausing with the democrats the vote is split 50 voting democrat and 49 voting Republican it doesn't change the power because the Deocrats have two seats more than the Republicans (51-49). The reason the power doesn't cange is that even though with the Senator out of commission the Republicans don't pick up a seat.
2006-12-18 11:12:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, as long as he in the recovery mode, nothing can or will be done. I'm sure this pisses off the neo cons to no end. As for who is in charge of the Senate, its 51-50 right now. If Senator Johnson can't continue then the Governor of South Dakota has to name a replacement. Since he is a republican, then its logical he would replace Johnson with a repulbican. This makes the Senate 50-50 and Cheney would have the tie breaking vote.
2006-12-18 11:16:41 · answer #3 · answered by Third Uncle 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Several senators in the past have had illnesses, and not been removed. Several senators who are perfectly fine to serve their civic duty, don't show up to all of the votes. So this has nothing to do with anything...and it was brain surgery, not a brain injury. Nothing will change...it does lead me to wonder how many dems versus how many reps show up to votes, though...
2006-12-18 11:16:07 · answer #4 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I still have some faith in the system and believe that unless it's a dig at the president and his administration you will have some bipartisan voting.. and I don't think the democrats (this is assuming they are planning to go after that president.. and honestly that's a big assumption) will make any move in that direction until they have their majority back.
2006-12-18 11:02:00 · answer #5 · answered by pip 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
senator Johnson will remain on the senate this have been done many time before
2006-12-18 11:00:39 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Seems to me the left is the only side worrying about this. I think they should be more worried about the mans life myself. Also if they have something to worry about itis the conservative democrats that got elected!
2006-12-18 11:00:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
they should out all the closet fudgepackers and pedophiles,
replace them and return to the gold standard.
2006-12-18 11:19:24 · answer #8 · answered by tanyasbeavereaterg`,`,` 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋