81.   The majority party in Congress usually sticks to the same script.

82.   The party that wins the most seats controls Parliament, and the majority party does not have to worry about a hostile Congress thwarting its agenda.

83.   The prime minister is the leader of the majority party in the House of Commons.

84.   The remaining pot would simply be divided into three, providing a potential election-year bonanza for the governor and the majority party in the Assembly and Senate.

85.   The speaker is officially elected by the full House, but actually already has been chosen at a meeting of the majority party.

86.   The vote for speaker is generally cast along party lines, a practice that has guaranteed that the majority party controls the speakership.

87.   Unlike regular committees, which are controlled by the majority party, the ethics committee is evenly divided between the two parties.

88.   When a candidate emerges with a majority, the full Assembly is convened and the members of the majority party unite behind that candidate in a formal vote.

89.   When the Democrats were the majority party, they felt little need to accommodate their political opposition on important committees.

90.   When the majority party in the House has trouble agreeing on an agenda, that means big trouble for the institution as a whole.