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An Alarmingly Narrow House Majority

By Byron York
Wednesday, February 05 2025

It's a truism that it is extremely difficult to govern with a tiny majority in the House of Representatives. When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody shows up, it takes a bare majority, 218 votes, to pass a bill. In practical terms, a majority party needs well over 218 seats to ensure it can win party-line votes. There will always be members who don't show up or take the other side, and the majority needs enough to win the vote even while losing a few on its own side. Looking at the House in the last 20 years, the majority party had 233 seats in the Congress beginning in…

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