WI President Gore with Democrat Congress

What if the Democrats won the White House and Congress in 2000? There's so many scenarios for an Al Gore win so something that tips the scales a bit will do. The Senate would flip too with Lieberman as Vice-President being the tie-breaker. That leaves the House. I flipped all the House seats won by the Republicans by a margin of 2% or less to the Democrats (I tried to do the same with the Senate, but there were no such races-the Democrats won the competitive races). The result is the Democrats win the House(the GOP got a pretty slim majority in 2000 IOTL).
2000 House elections
Dick Gephardt-Democratic: 220+9 48.1%
Dennis Hastert-Republican: 213-10 46.6%
435 seats
218 for majority

So the Democrats have a majority in both houses of Congress and Al Gore wins the 2000 election. What would be the effects? How would a Gore presidency go with a Democrat Congress(at least until 2002)? What if?
 
If 9/11 or something like it happens before the Midterms we could see Democrat dominance until at least 2006. I imagine that'd have a fair number of implications for American economic and social policy, although I'm not familiar enough with their 2000's era policies to say what those would be.
 
No the Republicans would make a HUGE fuss over incompetence and weakness had Gore been in office and the September 11 outrages happened. His best chance would have been to have been close to Clinton in the campaign, to have won and for the outrages to have been prevented. Also he makes a big thing of E ron and other dubious practices, runs as populist
 
If 9/11 or something like it happens before the Midterms we could see Democrat dominance until at least 2006. I imagine that'd have a fair number of implications for American economic and social policy, although I'm not familiar enough with their 2000's era policies to say what those would be.

I doubt it. In 2002, questions will be raised on why 9/11 was allowed to happen under Democratic watch, on why Bill Clinton (and even Al Gore, to an extent) failed to realize what was happening and neutralize the threats.
 
What domestic policy legislation might get passed?

The consensus on President Gore here seems to be that he would be blamed for 9/11 and he could lose 2004. Or do you think Gore would be a two-term President?
 
What domestic policy legislation might get passed?

The consensus on President Gore here seems to be that he would be blamed for 9/11 and he could lose 2004. Or do you think Gore would be a two-term President?
I think the former is more likely than the later, especially if the 2000 election still produces some sort of controversy ITTL.
 
I think the former is more likely than the later, especially if the 2000 election still produces some sort of controversy ITTL.

Well a 2% swing to the Democrats is used so that probably gives Gore a relatively clear victory, though it is still close.
 
Well a 2% swing to the Democrats is used so that probably gives Gore a relatively clear victory, though it is still close.
Either way, I think Gore unfortunately would get more scrutiny for 9/11 than Bush did (even though I think Gore would've responded much better than Bush did) as it would've happened with the Democrats in power for 8 years. Bush went largely unscathed because he was only in power for 8 months. The Republicans would run on National Security ("Clinton/Gore failed to keep us safe," etc...) in 2002, winning (or if Congress were to stay in Republican control, strengthen their majority) Congress. They would take the same strategy in 2004 and narrowly beat Gore. In all honesty though, I'd take a one term Gore Presidency followed by one or two terms of (most likely) McCain, than have what happened from 2001-2009 OTL happen.
 
I rather doubt that Gore could get much progressive legislation through a House narrowly controlled by the Democrats. In those days there were still a fair number of somewhat conservative white southern and border-state Democrats in the House. Not as many as before 1994, of course, but still a considerable number. Examples were Ronnie Shows and Gene Taylor of Mississippi; Chris John of Louisiana; Marion Berry, Vic Snyder, and Mike Ross of Arkansas; Bob Etheridge and Mike McIntyre of North Carolina; Brad Carson of Oklahoma; John Spratt of South Carolina; Bart Gordon and John Tanner of Tennessee; Chet Edwards and Ralph Hall of Texas, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/107th_United_States_Congress Not all of them were as conservative as Hall, who later became a Republican, but none of them would warm to any dramatic progressive initiative. It is true that there were also more moderate Republicans than today,
but even they tended to be conservative on economic as distinguished from social issues.

And in the Senate there were not only fairly conservative Democrats (not all of them from the South--for example, Ben Nelson of Nebraska) but there was also the filibuster...
 
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