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| [00:00.00] | President Obama's Democratic Party |
| [00:02.04] | has secured the critical 60 seat majority in the US Senate |
| [00:05.52] | that can help it override any Republican obstructions on Capitol Hill. |
| [00:08.69] | This happened when the Democrats |
| [00:11.12] | won the last undecided senate seat from November's election |
| [00:14.17] | after the Supreme Court in the state of Minnesota |
| [00:16.97] | declared the Democratic candidate Al Franken the winner. |
| [00:19.95] | Richard Lister reports from Washington. |
| [00:22.44] | For almost eight months |
| [00:24.24] | the two candidates had been locked |
| [00:26.17] | in a bitter fight in the Minnesota Courts |
| [00:28.10] | over the result of November's Senate election. |
| [00:30.28] | Just a few hundred votes separated them |
| [00:32.52] | after the 2.8 million cast. |
| [00:34.94] | The initial count favoured the Republican Norm Coleman |
| [00:38.61] | but the recount gave the majority |
| [00:40.23] | to his Democratic Party rival Al Franken. |
| [00:42.53] | And the State Supreme Court is now upheld that verdict. |
| [00:45.70] | His victory gives the Democrats 60 votes in the senate |
| [00:49.25] | and the potential to overturn |
| [00:50.93] | Republican efforts to block legislation. |
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