Harry Krause wrote:
On 11/9/2006 6:30 AM, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I was catching up on the election news this morning and everybody is
saying 51 Dems, 49 Repubs.

That's not right.

It's actually 49 Dems, 49 Repubs and 2 Independant.

So how does the Constitution or Senate rules, handle that?



The Indies can caucus or organize with whichever party they choose.
Sanders and Lieberman have already indicated they will caucus with the
Dems. That gives the Dems control of the Senate and gives Cheney more
time to go out hunting with his friends.

The gang of two. Will the two independents get their choice of chairmans
seats on the committees to keep them caucusing with the Democrats. It
appears that the Independents are in charge of the Senate and not the
Democrats.

"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:
On 11/9/2006 6:30 AM, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I was catching up on the election news this morning and everybody is
saying 51 Dems, 49 Repubs.

That's not right.

It's actually 49 Dems, 49 Repubs and 2 Independant.

So how does the Constitution or Senate rules, handle that?



The Indies can caucus or organize with whichever party they choose.
Sanders and Lieberman have already indicated they will caucus with the
Dems. That gives the Dems control of the Senate and gives Cheney more
time to go out hunting with his friends.

The gang of two. Will the two independents get their choice of chairmans
seats on the committees to keep them caucusing with the Democrats. It
appears that the Independents are in charge of the Senate and not the
Democrats.


Since Lieberman is not an independent, he will get whatever he got before.