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["Cristobal Palmer" <cristobalpalmer AT gmail.com>]

Please do correct me and/or fill in the gaps. Here's my understanding:

The _caucus_ with the most members gets to set the agenda,
chairmanships, etc. etc. If you don't pick a caucus, you don't get a
nice seat on a committee.

Yes, the independents will have some extra power just because the Dems
need them, but perhaps not as much as you might think.

Note, for example:

http://democrats.senate.gov/members/

Lieberman is on that page (he ran as an independent). I kinda doubt
that's the webmaster being lazy.

-CMP

On 11/10/06, DonBartholf AT aol.com <DonBartholf AT aol.com> wrote:
> OK - I admit to sleeping a lot during Civics 101. If the Dems have 49 seats
> and the Reps have 49 seats and the Ind have 2 seats, how come the Dems get
> control? I've seen little tag sentences that say the Ind. vote with the
> Dems, but if so, they don't sound so independant. What if the Inds said they
> were voting with the Reps? Sounds like the Inds could get some concessions
> and or name a price to join a voting block
>
>
> Don Bartholf
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