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Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee: Shelley Moore Capito: WV: January 3, 2025: Vice Chair of the Senate Republican Conference: James Lankford: OK: January 3, 2025: Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee: Tim Scott: SC: January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Republican Steering Committee Rick Scott: FL: January 3, 2025
In the Senate, Republicans briefly held the majority at the start; however, on January 20, 2021, three new Democratic senators – Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Alex Padilla of California – were sworn in, resulting in 50 seats held by Republicans, 48 seats held by Democrats, and two held by independents who caucus with the ...
In the 2022 midterm elections, the Republican Party won control of the House 222–213, taking the majority for the first time since the 115th Congress, while the Democratic Party gained one seat in the Senate, where they already had effective control, and giving them a 51–49-seat majority (with a caucus of 48 Democrats and three independents).
Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate late Tuesday after flipping Democratic held seats, holding onto GOP incumbents and wresting away the majority for the first time in four years.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2024 in Washington, DC.
The Senate flipped to a 53–47 Republican majority and in their leadership elections, John Thune was elected as successor to Mitch McConnell after 18 years. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The House assumed a 220–215 Republican majority, the narrowest controlling majority since the 65th Congress . [ 10 ]
Democratic Vermont: January 3, 1975 2 1743 Chuck Grassley: Republican Iowa: January 3, 1981 3 1766 Mitch McConnell: Republican Kentucky: January 3, 1985 4 1775 Richard Shelby: Republican Alabama: January 3, 1987 5 1801 Dianne Feinstein: Democratic California: November 10, 1992 6 1812 Patty Murray: Democratic Washington: January 3, 1993 7 1816 ...
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.