Your prof curved to the third quartile. Interesting.

Are you trying to pass an amendment? They actually had a supermajority for 72 days. Not that they didn’t get anything done, mind you, but the point stands.

Obama had a majority too. The problem is too many members rowing in different directions within the party.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress

Russia is interested in peace as long as it gets to dictate the terms, and install its own people in the new Russian territory.

This explanation makes no sense in the context of OP’s question, given the order of comments…