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Originally Posted by TexasDreamy
They passed the healthcare act.
Furthermore, they may have had a majority in both houses, but they only had the supermajority for a very very brief period of time.
Don't forget:
a) Al Franken's seat was in recount for like 5 months (he didn't take office till July 7, 2009)
b) Ted Kennedy got brain cancer and died on August 25, 2009, a democrat was appointed to replace him, but the GOP filed suits, etc, so that he was effectively useless.
c) Brown (R) was elected to Ted Kennedy's seat and took office in January 2010.
Other than the few brief moments when the democrats had the 60 votes, the republicans did everything they could to filibuster since 60 votes were required to move past it.
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Remember even Rep. Luis Gutierrez was angry at the Democrats' and President Obama not working on Immigration during a period when they controlled both chambers in 2008 and 2009?
He introduced CIR ASAP. But not even a committee hearing was conducted on that.
They are both politicians. At least, the GOP passed something through one chamber when they controlled the congress. This is in addition to the Social Security issue that they had to work on.