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I don’t believe it’s ever happened that the Senate and the house have been split in this fashion.

Well, this is the way it was supposed to be and probably was back before the statists, via the 17th Amendment, got rid of U.S. senators being appointed by their states: the rabble-rouser populists were in the House, the States protected their interests in the Senate. If anything finally managed to get through by some sort of agreement between them, it could always be vetoed by the president. That institutionalized factionalism between the voters of each state through their representatives, the states through their senators, and the federal government in the person of the president, in the context of very scarce dollars, made for a large amount of squabbling for a very small piece of federal pie. That was blown out of the water by the advent of 17th Amendment, the income tax, and social security taxes and an ever increasing amount of money brought into Washington by the collusion of House and Senate for them all to play social engineer with. After baseline budgeting was added to the mix in 1974, along with such entities as the EPA, the federal parasites finally had the means to avoid being purged from the body politic and settled down for a long feed. It's time for a serious de-worming to begin.