[11th_VA]

Details from Fox:

In the end, the sides compromised on the division of committee funds, office space and committee assignments.

The deal gives the GOP a one-seat majority on all committees except the Intelligence and Ethics committees, which traditionally have an even number of members from both parties.

It also gives the majority a roughly 60-40 advantage when it comes to staff, money and space, more than the two-thirds to one-third ratio that Republicans had wanted but less than the 51-49 percent split reflecting the majority-minority ratio. Democrats had threatened to filibuster anything less than that.

[VetsRule]

Fox is spinning. Not a lot, but a little. Dems were entitled to only 33%, and they got half minus admin expenses (which is what they had when they were in control).

The "extra 10%" really isn't that much extra, since there really ARE administrative expenses associated with running the committee. Xeroxing all of the documents and distributing them to all committee members, etc. etc.

So we caved. They might not have gotten everything they wanted, but they sure as hell weren't entitled to more than 33%.

VR

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks! I picked up the whole article and posted it on here. Looks like AP blew it again!

[rwfromkansas]

Fox says:

"In the end, the sides compromised on the division of committee funds, office space and committee assignments.

The deal gives the GOP a one-seat majority on all committees except the Intelligence and Ethics committees, which traditionally have an even number of members from both parties.

It also gives the majority a roughly 60-40 advantage when it comes to staff, money and space, more than the two-thirds to one-third ratio that Republicans had wanted but less than the 51-49 percent split reflecting the majority-minority ratio. Democrats had threatened to filibuster anything less than that."

Okay, I was rather concerned earlier, but it sounds like we stuck with 60-40. It seems Fox is the only network that is able to just lay it out simply without all the BS the other articles had to insert to make the whole thing confusing.

[Pietro]

"Democrats had threatened to filibuster anything less than that"

I think it's time we let the freakin' idiots filibuster. It's coming sooner or later anyways. If they filibuster simple procedural matters like this they'll get less and less simpathy w/ each act. Let the American people decide just whose interests the dems are serving.

Hey Frist, call their bluff, they got nothin'.