Sentence examples for senate split from inspiring English sources

Since the election last November of a Senate split evenly, senators have operated under a set of rules hammered out to deal with a 50-50 split.

The Senate, split 20-to-20 20-to-20 20-to-20w has 22 Democrats and 18 Republicans.

Mr. Bush cannot afford to lose many Republican votes with the Senate split 50-50.

The action was an early test of their influence in a Senate split 50-50.

The math of the Senate split renders either action nearly impossible.

With the Senate split 52to4848, Republicans barely had votes to spare.

The senate was split almost exactly in half by those senators representing mining provinces who would have profited had the law not passed, and those who considered the environmental impacts to be paramount.

I call this the Al Gore tax since the senate was split 50/50 on legislation that would add this extra tax and as Vice President he cast the tie-breaking vote.

National Democratic leaders called on a group of breakaway Democrats in the New York state senate to split from Republicans after a special election upheld the party's majority in the chamber.

Currently, the senate is split up just as it was when it was created in 1867 with 105 seats made up of 24 from Quebec, 24 from Ontario, 24 from the maritime provinces, 24 from the West, Newfoundland gets six and each territory gets one.

In the Senate -- split 50-50 betheen the parties -- the arithmetic is trickier for Mr. Bush.