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4. Total. 100. Independent Sens. Angus King of Maine, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia caucus with the Democratic Party; [1][2][3][4] independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona does not caucus with the Democrats, but is "formally aligned with the Democrats for committee purposes." [5]
Addison Mitchell McConnell III[1] (/ məˈkɒnəl /; born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney who has been serving as senate minority leader since 2021 and the senior United States senator from Kentucky since 1985, the longest-serving senator in Kentucky history. McConnell has been the leader of the Senate ...
Republican Wyoming: Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (8 years) 96 1988 Roger Marshall: Republican Kansas: Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (4 years) 97 1989 John Hickenlooper: Democratic Colorado: Former governor 98 1990 Bill Hagerty: Republican Tennessee: Tennessee 17th in population (2010) 99 1991 Tommy ...
Fifteen senators have been expelled in the Senate's history: William Blount, for treason, in 1797, and fourteen in 1861 and 1862 for supporting the Confederate secession. Although no senator has been expelled since 1862, many senators have chosen to resign when faced with expulsion proceedings – for example, Bob Packwood in 1995.
PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader elect John Thune, with his newly elected leadership team, responds to a question from the news media following the Senate Republican leadership vote in the U.S ...
Republican aides and strategists predict he will pardon many of the people convicted of Jan. 6, 2021-related crimes. A Senate Republican aide warned such a move “will anger a lot of Republicans ...
The Republican Conference of the United States Senate is a descendant of the early American party caucus that decided party policies, approved appointees, and selected candidates. The meetings were private, and early records of the deliberations do not exist. Senate Republicans began taking formal minutes only in 1911, and they began referring ...
The 117th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It convened in Washington, D.C., on January 3, 2021, during the final weeks of Donald Trump's first presidency and the first two years of Joe Biden ...