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Origin of "longtime House Republican principle that states no bill should pass without a 'majority of the majority' on board"?
This is known as the Hastert Rule. Hastert, a Republican, was the Speaker of the House from 1999-2006. Though in fact the rule was considered in effect and well known during the prior Speaker's ...
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Origin of "longtime House Republican principle that states no bill should pass without a 'majority of the majority' on board"?
I will only answer the 1. of your questions as I don't have a good answer to the other ones.
Majority of the majority means that more than half of the members of the party that currently has a ...
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How do these contradictory claims about the US national debt square against each other?
This seems to indicate that the first source is wrong, because the US federal deficit went in only one direction (up) under all three presidents that allegedly decreased the deficit.
Well, the ...
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How do these contradictory claims about the US national debt square against each other?
Debt and deficit are two different things. The deficit is the amount by which the national expenditure exceeded its revenue, each year. The debt is the total amount owed to other parties, accumulated ...
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How do these contradictory claims about the US national debt square against each other?
You're looking at different quantities
The value "change in deficit, in percentage points of GDP" depends both on the absolute size of the deficit and the absolute size of the GDP, whereas ...
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