But packed with hard-line conservatives and liberals, the committee has always been one of the most ideologically divided in the House.
In the pre-independence era, the Congress was ideologically divided into two groups, moderate and activist.
When the Court was ideologically divided, that power often fell to Justice Brennan.
Their deputies may have to make politically sensitive decisions on basic issues where the Clinton Administration may be ideologically divided.
A second difference is that the Democratic Party is far less ideologically divided today than it was 50 years ago.
There also was a small republican minority in the National Assembly, ideologically divided between federalism and centralism.
This would seem particularly so with the current weak and ideologically divided Japanese Cabinet.
Much of the trade union movement was ideologically divided.
Even as a product of the 1960s, Driehaus had never seen the nation so ideologically divided.
The madrassas are also ideologically divided in two mainstreams.