SUPER MAJORITY

Do people realize that Democrats only had a super majority for about 3 months?A lot of people (Republica­ns claim this all the time) think the Democrats had a super-majo­rity for the first two years of the Obama administra­tion, but instead of two years, it was more like three months.

Democrats achieved a super-majo­rity on July 7, 2009 when Al Franken assumed office
Congress was on recess from Aug 8-Sep 5

Robert Byrd was extremely sick during fall and winter of 2009 and was unable to cast his vote during much of that time.

Scott Brown (R) assumed Ted Kennedy’s seat in the Senate on February 4, 2010, thus eliminatin­g the Democrat’s super-majo­rity.