The Democrats' Senate Majority Is Temporarily Gone

Feb 03, 2022 View Original Article
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"Barring complications, the senator could return to work in four to six weeks, a senior Lujan aide told me."
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6% Conservative
"Fortunately, Lujan's office reported that doctors believe he'll make a full recovery."
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4% Conservative
"They had learned that lesson well enough after Manchin cut off negotiations over Biden's top priority in December, and again after he and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona thwarted the party's effort to change Senate rules and pass voting-rights legislation last month."
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-2% Liberal
"They had learned that lesson well enough after Manchin cut off negotiations over Biden's top priority in December, and again after he and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona thwarted the party's effort to change Senate rules and pass voting-rights legislation last month."
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-2% Liberal
"All of us are hopeful and optimistic that he will be back to his old self before long, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a floor speech this morning."
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-2% Liberal
"Until Senator Ben Ray Lujan returns, his party won't be able to do anything significant -- including confirming a new Supreme Court justice -- without Republican help."
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-8% Liberal
"Yesterday, however, Democrats received troubling news that made their initial sense of urgency much easier to understand: Senator Ben Ray Lujan, a Democrat from New Mexico serving his first term, had suffered a stroke that required surgery to relieve brain swelling."
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-8% Liberal
"And President Joe Biden's eventual nominee might secure a few GOP votes, especially because the pick won't dent the conservatives' 6-3 ideological advantage on the Court."
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-12% Liberal
"But for the time being, Biden's Build Back Better plan is even more dead than Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia declared it yesterday morning, a few hours before Lujan's hospitalization became public."
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-16% Liberal
"But for the time being, Biden's Build Back Better plan is even more dead than Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia declared it yesterday morning, a few hours before Lujan's hospitalization became public."
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-16% Liberal
"From 2009 to 2013, four Democratic senators -- Edward Keedy of Massachusetts, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey -- died in office."
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-16% Liberal
"Lujan's absence may not make a ton of difference."
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-20% Liberal
"Although Barrett took her seat on the bench just 27 days after her nomination by President Donald Trump, Democrats aren't likely to move quite that quickly, giving Lujan more time to recuperate."
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-2% Liberal
"Although Barrett took her seat on the bench just 27 days after her nomination by President Donald Trump, Democrats aren't likely to move quite that quickly, giving Lujan more time to recuperate."
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-2% Liberal
"In 2019, GOP Senator Johy Isakson of Georgia resigned because of Parkinson's disease."
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-26% Liberal
"As uncouth as it may be to acknowledge the political impact of the loss of someone's life, Keedy's death from brain cancer in 2009 ultimately deprived Democrats of their filibuster-proof 60th vote when the Republican Scott Brown won a special election for his seat the following January."
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-28% Liberal
"Read: Why Biden had no other choice on voting rights"
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-30% Liberal
"In 2017-18, Republicans saw two of their members, Senators Thad Cochran of Mississippi and John McCain of Arizona, miss stretches of time because of illness; Cochran resigned midway through his term in April 2018, and McCain died in office of cancer later in the year."
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-44% Liberal
"In 2017-18, Republicans saw two of their members, Senators Thad Cochran of Mississippi and John McCain of Arizona, miss stretches of time because of illness; Cochran resigned midway through his term in April 2018, and McCain died in office of cancer later in the year."
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-44% Liberal
"At 49, Lujan is younger than all but five Democratic senators, although he is roughly the same age that Senators Tim Johnson, a Democrat of South Dakota, and Mark Kirk, a Republican of Illinois, were when they suffered strokes in 2006 and 2012, respectively."
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-14% Liberal
"At 49, Lujan is younger than all but five Democratic senators, although he is roughly the same age that Senators Tim Johnson, a Democrat of South Dakota, and Mark Kirk, a Republican of Illinois, were when they suffered strokes in 2006 and 2012, respectively."
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-14% Liberal
"At 49, Lujan is younger than all but five Democratic senators, although he is roughly the same age that Senators Tim Johnson, a Democrat of South Dakota, and Mark Kirk, a Republican of Illinois, were when they suffered strokes in 2006 and 2012, respectively."
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