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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: 80th Celebration
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:42:22 -0600
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On 1/10/2025 2:18 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:41:44 -0300, Shadow wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:03:41 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Congress in all its wisdom allowed the Union Pacfic railrosd to
>>> purechase the Southern Pacific railroad for which my brother worked for
>>> his entire life without honoring the union contract that the SP had
>>> negotiated.
>>
>> 	Sounds very "repuglican" to me. Uggh !!!
>> 	That was in 1996, right? Who had the majority?
>>
>>
>>> Overnight my brother went from living comfotably with a good retirement
>>> income and good health insurance to living on Social Security and
>>> Medicare.
>>
>> 	It's what you get when you vote far-right. Well, at least you
> learned
>> 	something.
> 
> 
> I cannot help it if you prefer to be a socialist. That is why Brazil is
> such a world power.
> 
> In '96 it was a 50-50 house and senate both.

Both the 104th (1995~6) and 105th (1996~7) Congresses were 
Republican majority:

https://www.infoplease.com/us/government/legislative-branch/composition-of-congress-by-political-party-1855-2017

The 1996 election, in which Mr Clinton won his 2d term, was 
a dramatic success for Mr Gingrich's Republican House members:

https://www.hoover.org/research/1996-house-elections-reaffirming-conservative-trend

resulting in significant shifts to Administration policies 
and negotiating positions, successfully implemented 
legislation and budgets, and eventually to the closest to 
balanced budget in decades; not seen since.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971