Word: splitting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Both chambers meet on Jan. 5. The Republican-majority House would probably pick Florida's Bush electors. The evenly divided Senate would probably choose Gore's (as Vice President, Gore gets the deciding vote). If this split decision happens, the chief executive of Florida--Jeb Bush--gets to choose which slate to endorse. Will he crown his brother...
...confidence in Cheney and the sheer breadth of his running mate's experience help ensure that Cheney would have a leading role in everything from staffing and running the White House and federal agencies to directing foreign and defense policy to negotiating with Congress. And the 50-50 split between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate would turn the Vice President's largely ceremonial role as president of the upper chamber into something far more serious, summoning Cheney to Capitol Hill for every important vote in case he's needed to break a tie. Last week even Bush's syntax...
...then, but may yet turn out to be right. If Gore wins the contest, and the legislature has picked its own electors, then Congress, on Jan. 5, will have to choose whether Gore's or the legislature's electors will be seated. But if the two houses of Congress split on that (probably, with a Republican House and a Democratic Senate), the decision will go back to the chief executive of the state. Jeb Bush will then become the first state executive to name a slate of electors to defeat the popular vote, the first to have the choice...
...Tang is a conglomeration of rappers that includes RZA (the mastermind and main producer), Method Man (the star M.C.), Masta Killa, U-God, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah and Ol' Dirty Bastard. A 10th rapper, Cappadonna, is regarded as an honorary member. While other groups rage and split and fall apart when members look to release solo work, Wu-Tang's boundaries are loose. All the members have authored solo albums at one time or another. RZA, for his part, composed the music for the 1999 Jim Jarmusch film Ghost...
...pols, pundits and principals alike all peered over the brink of a big decision by a split Supreme Court, Democrats all got asked if Scalia was on record endorsing George W. Bush, and Republicans were all invited to denounce the wild and crazy Florida Four. (Thus cramming the four dissenting Supremes into an even tinier Democratic box.) Often enough, the consiglieres obliged...