Better Fill up today

[frawin]

July Crude Oil closed down $4.19/BBL at $134.35 for the day.
Frank

[pam]

How many years did the republicans have control of congress before this last election?

[Teresa]

The Republican Revolution or Revolution of '94 is what the Republican Party of the United States dubbed their success in the 1994 U.S. midterm elections, which resulted in a net gain of 54 seats in the House of Representatives, and a pickup of eight seats in the Senate.
The day after the election, Democratic Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama changed parties, becoming a Republican.

The gains in seats in the mid-term election resulted in the Republicans gaining control of both the House and the Senate in January 1995. Republicans had not held the majority in the House for forty years, since the 83rd Congress (elected in 1952) under Republican Speaker Joseph William Martin, Jr..

Large Republican gains were made in state houses as well when the GOP picked up twelve governor seats and 472 legislative seats. In so doing, it took control of 20 state legislatures from the Democrats. Prior to this, Republican had not held the majority of governorships since 1972. In addition, this was the first time in 50 years that the GOP controlled a majority of state legislatures.

Discontent against the Democrats was foreshadowed by a string of elections after 1992, the more notable among them being the capture of the mayoralties of New York and Los Angeles by the Republicans in 1993. In that same year, Christine Todd Whitman captured the New Jersey governorship from the Democrats and Bret Schundler became the mayor of overwhelmingly Democratic Jersey City. The pace of Republican victories in off-year elections gained momentum. Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison took a senate seat from the Democrats in Texas. Republican Ron Lewis picked up a congressional seat from Democrats in Kentucky in May 1994.

Democratic President Bill Clinton said in his January 1996 State of the Union Address, "The era of big government is over." Later in 1996, Republicans would fail to defeat Clinton's re-election bid.

[frawin]

The front month, July 2008 crude, settled at $131.31 down $3.04 on the day. 
Frank

[Lookatmeknow!!]

Never thought I would see the day that I couldn't afford to go to Walmart

[Diane Amberg]

We did pretty well on gas coming here.$3.73 to $ 3.99. never broke $4.00

[Bonnie M.]

Well, that's good news!  So, are you in Moline tonight?   

[Diane Amberg]

We are indeed. Drove around some and had a good burger at Swinging Bridge Cafe. Very nice people here.

[Wilma]

And tonight there are two more.

[Diane Amberg]

Well thank you.