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| | State |
 | | Today (2003) the situation is reversed, the SPD government being severely hindered by a large CDU majority in the Bundesrat. |
| | At the same time, the powers of the Lands in their own territories have been much diminished in the last decades with the ever-increasing amount of federal legislation. |
| | In the early 1990s, the opposition SPD commanded a two-thirds majority in that legislative chamber, which made it particularly difficult for the CDU/CSU-FDP government to achieve the constitutional changes it sought. |
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