[Frank_Discussion]

How can they achieve such a thing? I thought that the majority party set up the committees, and that's that.

This is the second thread I've seen regarding this, and I'm profoundly confused.

[Zack Nguyen]

Frank:

The Democrats are trying to appear reasonable and put-upon, but they are just playing games. Traditionally, committee funds have been divided 2/3 to the majority and 1/3 to the minority. You'll remember that in 2001 the Senate was divided 50/50. Ergo in that case the committee funds were 50-50. Then Senator Jeffords left the Republican Party and became an Independent. Democrats up 50-49-1.

It was in the middle of the session, so rather than going back in the middle of things and renegotiating a new funding arrangement, the Republicans and Democrats decided to keep the 50-50 arrangement.

Now the Democrats want the funding 50-50 despite the fact that they actually lost the election. No one flipped parties to give us the majority. BAsically they are playing children's games to mess with us.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Every session starts totally from scratch. They are now operating without any structure (or rather the old structure) until the new one replaces it.

The Dems can just keep the new structure stalled and things will be just like November 5th, 2002, never happened.