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...House of Commons was at last demanding a whip hand over the House of Lords, and Their Lordships with embattled obstinacy would not yield. They had haughtily rejected the Commons' so-called "People's Budget" championed by liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, later the Earl of Oxford & Asquith, and were arrayed against the radical proviso to impose an extreme tax on income and property of Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George, whose ungentlemanly Limehouse speeches at this time were all about "our dissolute dukes...
...Harry is rock solid, even on the little things," says New York Senator Chuck Schumer. "If he promises you there won't be a vote after 7 p.m., he'll find some creative way to make sure the vote doesn't happen. His whip counts are always accurate. If he says he'll get you five votes, he does. And he is tough. When people do the wrong thing, when they take the easy way out on a vote, he lets them know it. And he doesn't forget." These sorts of things, as opposed to charm or ideology...
Susan Hirschmann, who is the former chief of staff to Majority Whip Tom Delay, R-Texas, emphasized the importance of first impressions...
When Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican whip, was asked by The New York Times about the Republicans’ 55-44 advantage, he said that “Fifty-five is better than fifty-one, but it’s not sixty.” What he is saying is that the Democrats still have one crucial check on the Republicans: the filibuster, which allows 40 senators to block a vote indefinitely. Thus, Republicans will be able to pass moderately conservative legislation and put moderately conservative judges on the bench, but radical conservatism will likely continue...
...camps out on the Senate floor, Reid was Daschle's point man for secretly convincing Vermont's other Senator, James Jeffords, to ditch the Republican Party in 2001 and vote with Democrats as an independent. "He's a straight shooter, smart and easy to work with," says Senate Republican whip Mitch McConnell. "Having said that, I also know he can be a tough opponent...