A NEW ADMINSTRATION AND A NEW CONGRESS
President George W. Bush, Republican, was inaugurated on January
20, 2001.
The press and we refer
to him as ‘Dubya’. Bush was sworn in as
President by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist.
He chose as his running mate Dick Cheney, who is our current Vice-President.
Prominent
Member of Mr. Bush’s Cabinet
Secretary of State
Colin Powell was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 20,
2001.
He is the first
African-American Secretary of State in U. S. history.
Of the 100 U.S.
senators in Congress, there are now 50
Republican U.S. Senators and 50 Democratic U.S. Senators.
In case of a tie in the
U.S. Senate, that tie can be decided by the person who presides over the
Senate. That person is the
vice-president of the United States.
Our current vice-president, who is Republican, Dick Cheney
can cast the deciding vote. So we are
correct in saying that the G.O.P*, the nickname of the Republicans, really has
the majority in the U.S. Senate.
*GOP stands for the Grand Old Party.
The Democratic Party
has the distinction in history that its junior senator from the state of New
York, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is the first wife of a U.S president to be
elected to the United States Congress.
Though
vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman was not elected to office, he still was
re-elected as Senator from the state of Connecticut. His re-election as U.S. Senator guaranteed that the U.S. Senate
would be divided by the equal number of senators from each party.