In 1919, Wilson engaged in an intense fight with Henry Cabot Lodge and the Republican-controlled Senate over giving the League of Nations power to force the U. S. into a war.

He was sworn in as Senator only after an extraordinary election challenge, in which his apparent defeat at the polls by a Progressive Party ally running as a Republican was reversed by a Republican-controlled U. S. Senate over seventeen months later.

Two months earlier, Brookhart had been removed from the Iowa's other U. S. Senate seat when a majority of his colleagues in the Republican-controlled U. S. Senate voted in favor of Democrat Dan Steck's challenge to the outcome of the 1924 Brookhart-Steck race.

Jenkins took his case to the Republican-controlled U. S. Senate, claiming that Landrieu's 5, 788-vote margin was made possible only by fraudulent votes mostly in New Orleans.

Mitchell decried the high rate of unemployment in the state and said the Meyner administration and the Republican-controlled State Senate `` Must share the blame for this ''.

Clinton also experienced a number of judicial appointment controversies, as 69 nominees to federal judgeships were not processed by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee.

He and the Republican-controlled legislature also enacted " reforms " of the court system that resulted in an increase in the number of judicial appointments.

The Republican-controlled legislature had created district boundaries designed to enhance their party's control over state and national offices, leading to some oddly shaped legislative districts.

Just as it began, the Republican-controlled state government passed a local-option law that allowed counties to ban the sale of liquor.

Dewey was not as conservative as the Republican-controlled 80th Congress, which also proved problematic for him.

The Republican-controlled Java and Sumatra would be one of its states, alongside areas that were generally under stronger Dutch influence, including southern Kalimantan, and the ' Great East ', which consisted of Sulawesi, Maluku, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and Western New Guinea.

Republican-controlled Java and Sumatra together formed a single state in the sixteen-state RUSI federation, but accounted for almost half its population.

These votes were not enough to throw Sanchez's victory into doubt, so the investigation was halted and the outcome was upheld by a Republican-controlled Congress, making Sanchez the first American of Mexican heritage to represent Orange County in Congress.

This earned him the enmity of the Republican-controlled Congress, but made him a favorite as Grover Cleveland's running mate in 1892, and he duly became 23rd Vice President of the United States.

On November 17, 2010, Pelosi was elected as the Democratic Leader by House Democrats and therefore the Minority Leader in the Republican-controlled House for the 112th Congress.

" The threat of a filibuster removed, Republicans were able to force cloture on the three most conservative Bush appellate court nominees ( Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor-no relation ), who subsequently passed a vote by the full Republican-controlled Senate.

Because of redistricting by the Republican-controlled state legislature following the 2010 state elections, Ohio's 9th congressional district absorbed part of Cuyahoga County, abolishing Kucinich's district and pitting him against 9th district incumbent Marcy Kaptur in the 2012 Democratic primary, which he lost.

In April 2011 the firm signed a $ 500, 000 contract with the Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives to take on the case of defending the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage in federal law as the union between one man and one woman, in court for the House, with former Solicitor General Paul Clement, the firm's most prominent Washington, D. C. partner, as its lead attorney.

He did it to bring to light the Republican-controlled Illinois state government's failure to promise competitive bidding for the project.

The Revenue Act of 1948 was vetoed by President Harry S. Truman, but his veto was overridden on April 2, 1948, by a two-thirds vote of each House of the Republican-controlled Eightieth Congress of the United States.

Gilligan narrowly lost his re-election bid to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966 to Republican Robert Taft Jr. after the Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly redrew his district to favor the Republican Party.

Jefferson's successor, President James Madison, and the Republican-controlled Congress, continued Jefferson's policies.

The Republican-controlled Congress, on March 10, 1866, passed a joint resolution recognizing the transfer.

While she managed to fend them all off ( even in the big Democratic years of 1992, 1996 and 1998 ), the low popularity of the Republican-controlled Congress gradually undermined her.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton negotiated with the Republican-controlled Congress to pass the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act which drastically restructured the program.

The Republican-controlled Congress was highly criticized for its lavish spending, and it earned the unflattering nickname of The Billion Dollar Congress.

These struggles against Congress ultimately led to his termination as Social Security Commissioner in 1953 when his re-appointment was not confirmed by a new Republican-controlled Congress.

Introduced as during the 108th Congress, the Republican-controlled House passed it in 2004, but it did not pass the Senate.

In the Republican-controlled 108th Congress, ten Bush judicial nominees had been filibustered by the minority Democrats.

On July 15, several weeks after the Republican-controlled Congress had adjourned for the year leaving much business unfinished, Truman took the unprecedented step of using his presidential nomination acceptance speech to call both houses back into session.

Granholm responded that she did not support the SBT, but rather opposed plans by the Republican-controlled state legislature to eliminate the tax without replacing the lost revenue.

The ward was created when the Republican-controlled legislature gerrymandered a district within Jersey City in 1871 to concentrate and isolate Democratic, and mostly Catholic, votes.

Ramón Franco was killed in an air accident on October 28, 1938 when his hydroplane crashed off Pollença, near the coast of Majorca, while attempting to bomb Republican-controlled Valencia.

He was the first Democratic Governor in state history to have a Republican-controlled legislature, and was, to date, Florida's last elected Democratic governor ( Buddy MacKay, who succeeded him upon his death, holds the title of Florida's most recent Democratic governor ).

Although the offensive on Madrid was abandoned in March 1937, a series of attacks on weaker Republican-controlled areas was supported by Germany ; despite prolonging the Civil War, it would help to distract the other western powers from Hitler's ambitions in central Europe.

Carey managed to keep the growth of state spending below the rate of inflation through his frequent use of line-item vetoes and fights with the New York State Legislature, which was at the time divided between a Republican-controlled Senate and a Democratic-controlled Assembly.

With fewer than 200 votes in the balance, the Republican-controlled legislature scrutinized the returns in a partisan manner, eventually finding that Strong in fact lacked a majority of votes, which was what was then required to carry the election ( as opposed to a plurality ).

By the time another seat on the Court was vacant after the death of Howell E. Jackson in 1895, Hill was weakened politically and Cleveland turned to Rufus Peckham, who was confirmed within six days on December of that year ( by a Republican-controlled Senate ) and took his oath of office in January 1896.

His final term in office was marked by high-profile struggles with the Republican-controlled state legislature and a near-shutdown of the state government.

Using his popularity, he was able to have the Republican-controlled General Assembly pass legislation to ban gambling on horse races in the state and at the Indiana State Fair.

Then President Wilson's specific proposal for the League of Nations met resistance from the Republican-controlled Senate and the opposition led by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts.

Had Michel run in the 1994 elections and won, he would have served in a Republican-controlled House for the first time in his entire Congressional career.

The Republican-controlled legislature drew a new, heavily Republican Harrisburg-based district designed for Gekas.

In the Republican-controlled Senate, three Democrats and two Republicans who had voted against the 2009 bill indicated their support for legalizing same-sex marriage.

However, the Republican-controlled returning board threw out the votes from several areas, citing fraud and voter intimidation ; in all, over 15, 000 votes ( of which more than 13, 000 were for Tilden ) were discounted.

During the 2003 Texas redistricting, the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature drew most of Laredo, which had been one of the bases of the 23rd for its entire existence, into the.

Another possible explanation is that in our reality the Dakotas and the Southwest territory were strongly Republican, giving a Republican-controlled government strong incentive to split both of the territories into two states, in order to get more representation in the Senate and more electoral votes to the Republican nominee for President.