Sharply Split Congress Faces a Herculean Job Mr. McCain, chairman of the Commerce Committee, predicted, "We're going to have to have 50-50
committees." He said he had told his committee's senior Democrat, Senator Ernest F. Hollings of South
Carolina, that "I am fully ready to accept an even committee" while retaining the chairmanship himself.

"We were shutting out the Democrats from their legitimate rights as a minority in the Senate, and there is a
lot of anger among the Democrats about it," he said. "We have to do business differently.