We have since researched farther back. Turns out there was one year, 1976. We went back eight decades. There was one year In 1976 where the Senate cast more votes than we did this year. But if you go back to 1989, the closest one is right here in 1995, which for those of us who were actually following it back then, that was the Contract with America year. (00:58–01:04)
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