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Control of the Congress from 1855 to 2025 Popular vote and house seats won by party. Party divisions of United States Congresses have played a central role on the organization and operations of both chambers of the United States Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives—since its establishment as the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States in 1789.
As of January 2025, 64 women have served in the upper house of the United States Congress, of which 26 (16 Democrats and 10 Republicans) are currently serving (out of 100 possible seats). Nancy Kassebaum (born July 29, 1932) is the oldest living former female member of the Senate at the age of 92.
The 2024 election is today, and the results will usher in the 119th Congress.. The United States Congress is comprised of two chambers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate, or ...
Party leader since January 3, 2025: Senate Majority Whip: John Barrasso: WY: January 3, 2025 Party whip since January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Republican Conference: Tom Cotton: AR: January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee: Shelley Moore Capito: WV: January 3, 2025: Vice Chair of the Senate Republican Conference ...
The last time either party had a filibuster-proof majority was in early 2010 when Democrats had 60 seats in the Senate. Republicans came closest to matching that result when they had 59 of the ...
236 candidates for House and Senate, including 130 Democrats, 45 Republicans and 61 third-party candidates. Here’s a full breakdown of how lawmakers responded. -- Sudiksha Kochi
However, since 1920, Democrats have controlled the Senate for about 58 years. During most of that period Senate Democrats earned a larger share of Senate seats than their share of the national House vote. Since filibuster rules were revised in 1975, the Democratic Party earned filibuster-proof supermajorities three times after the 1974, 1976 ...
February 3, 2021: Senate organizing resolution passed, allowing Democrats to control committees and freshman senators to take committee appointments. February 4, 2021: House voted 230–199 on H.Res. 72 , removing Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia's 14th congressional district from the House committees on Education and Labor and ...