United States Senate

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== Current majority ==
== Current majority ==
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After the [[United States Senate elections, 2010|2010 elections]], the current division of the US Senate are as follows.
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After the [[United States Senate elections, 2014|2014 elections]], the Democratic Party widened its majority in the chamber to a filibuster-proof number of 20 with 12 Republican Senators in the minority.  With the resignation of Waylon Grabowski in 2015, the Democrats increased their seats to 21 and the Republicans fell to 11.
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! Seats
! Seats
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[Republican Party]] || 16
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| bgcolor="blue"| || '''[[Democratic Party]] || '''16'''
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| bgcolor="blue"| || '''[[Democratic Party]]''' || '''16'''
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[Republican Party]]''' || 16
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Former United States Senator [[Jonathan Hayes]] is the constitutional President of the Senate after being confirmed as Vice President by the outgoing Senate. Being a Democrat, he breaks the tie in favor of his party, giving them the Majority.
 
== Senate leadership ==
== Senate leadership ==
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The current leadership positions of the Senate are occupied as follows:
The current leadership positions of the Senate are occupied as follows:
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*President pro tempore: [[Dmitri Kowalchuk]] (D-FL)
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*President of the Senate: [[Jefferson Pooty]]
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*Majority Leader: [[Esther Cullen]] (D-KY)
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*President pro tempore:
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*Majority Whip: [[George Jameson]] (D-IL)
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*Majority Leader:  
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*Majority Whip:  
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*Minority Leader: [[Ken MacLeod]] (R-MT)
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*Minority Leader:  
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*Minority Whip: [[Oscar Perry]] (R-LA)
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*Minority Whip:  
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*Chair of Government Regulations and Commerce Committee: [[Jimmy Kennedy]] (D-IL)
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*Chair of Government Regulations and Commerce Committee:  
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*Chair of Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and Defense Committee: [[Sebastian Williams]] (D-NC)
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*Chair of Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and Defense Committee:  
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*Chair of Judiciary Committee: [[Danielle Morgenthau]] (D-WA)
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*Chair of Judiciary Committee: [
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*Chair of Domestic Affairs Committee: [[Madison Ballentine]] (D-CT)
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*Chair of Domestic Affairs Committee:  
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*Ranking Member of Government Regulations and Commerce Committee:
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*Ranking Member of Foreign Relations, Intelligence and Defense Committee:
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*Ranking Member of Judiciary Committee:
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*Ranking Member of Domestic Affairs Committee:
== Current Senators By Region ==
== Current Senators By Region ==
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! Cycle
! Cycle
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Olude Carter ]] || Southwest || California || California || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Julian Williams ]] || Appalachia || Bluegrass || Tennessee || 2015* || 1  
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Jackson Watkiss ]] || Southwest || California || California || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Obediah Maysfield ]] || Appalachia || Bluegrass || Tennessee || 2012 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Markus Rasan ]] || Southwest || Sunbelt || Arizona || 2010 || 1  
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ David F. Blount ]] || Appalachia || Shenandoah Valley || North Carolina || 2014 || 1
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Thomas Caffee ]] || Southwest || Sunbelt || Nevada || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Sebastian Williams ]] || Appalachia || Shenandoah Valley || North Carolina || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ James Lightfoot ]] || Northwest || Big Sky Country || Idaho || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Braxton S. Morrison ]] || Gulf Coast || Deep South || Louisiana || 2013* || 2  
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Ken MacLeod ]] || Northwest || Big Sky Country || Montana || 2010 || 3  
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Patricia Sorenson ]] || Gulf Coast || Deep South || Alabama || 2015 || 3  
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Anthony Sherman ]] || Northwest || Cascadia || Washington || 2011* || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Alejandro Sanchez ]] || Gulf Coast || Seminole || Florida || 2015 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Danielle Morgenthau  ]] || Northwest || Cascadia || Washington || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Dmitri Kowalchuk ]] || Gulf Coast || Seminole || Florida || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ George Jameson ]] || Midwest || Wabash Valley || Illinois || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Peter Fossil ]] || Heartlands || Farmbelt || Oklahoma || 2013* || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Jimmy Kennedy ]] || Midwest || Wabash Valley || Illinois || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Elizabeth Cauthon ]] || Heartlands || Farmbelt || Missouri || 2011* || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Andrew Morrison ]] || Midwest || Great Lakes || Michigan || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Basil Louis Taylor  ]] || Heartlands || Texas || Texas || 2014 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Orson Pierce ]] || Midwest || Great Lakes || Michigan || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[Buford T. Justice]] || Heartlands || Texas || Texas || 2012 || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Bryan McLaggen ]] || Appalachia || Bluegrass || Kentucky || 2011* || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Jackson Rockefeller ]] || Mid-Atlantic || Alleghenies || Ohio || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Esther Cullen ]] || Appalachia || Bluegrass || Kentucky || 2010 || 3  
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ John Kent ]] || Mid-Atlantic || Alleghenies || Ohio || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ David Summerville ]] || Appalachia || Shenandoah Valley || North Carolina || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Teddy Weinberg ]] || Mid-Atlantic || Atlantic Seaboard || New Jersey || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Sebastian Williams ]] || Appalachia || Shenandoah Valley || North Carolina || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Matt Everson ]] || Mid-Atlantic  || Atlantic Seaboard || Maryland || 2012 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Oscar Perry ]] || Gulf Coast || Deep South || Louisiana || 2010 || 2  
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Daniel J. Morey ]] || Midwest || Great Lakes || Michigan || 2014 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Jefferson Pooty ]] || Gulf Coast || Deep South || Lousiana || 2010 || 3  
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Thomas Jackson ]] || Midwest || Great Lakes || Michigan || 2011 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Sergei Kerzhakov ]] || Gulf Coast || Seminole || Florida || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Lincoln Winters ]] || Midwest || Wabash Valley || Illinois || 2015* || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Dmitri Kowalchuk ]] || Gulf Coast || Seminole || Florida || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Charles Porter ]] || Midwest || Wabash Valley || Illinois || 2014* || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Terry Hughes ]] || Heartlands || Farmbelt || Missouri || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Jennifer Dixon ]] || Northeast || New England || Massachusetts || 2013* || 1
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Elizabeth Cauthon ]] || Heartlands || Farmbelt || Missouri || 2011* || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Ross Kesler ]] || Northeast || New England || Maine || 2014 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Herbert Nielson ]] || Heartlands || Texas || Texas || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Victor Bradshaw ]] || Northeast || New York || New York || 2013* || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ A. A. Abbingdon ]] || Heartlands || Texas || Texas || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Kevin Santos-Carter ]] || Northeast || New York || New York || 2012 || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Natalie Roberts ]] || Northeast || New England || New Hampshire || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Emma Adcock ]] || Northwest || Big Sky Country || Montana || 2014 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Madison Ballentine ]] || Northeast || New England || Connecticut || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Ken MacLeod ]] || Northwest || Big Sky Country || Montana || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Archie Sanford ]] || Northeast || New York || New York || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Ian Joyce ]] || Northwest || Cascadia || Washington || 2011* || 1
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Willow Jaynes ]] || Northeast || New York || New York || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Karen Dayton Devereaux ]] || Northwest || Cascadia || Oregon || 2014 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Jackson Rockefeller ]] || Mid-Atlantic || Alleghenies || Ohio || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Quentin Hennessy ]] || Southwest || California || California || 2016 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ John Kent ]] || Mid-Atlantic || Alleghenies || Ohio || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Jackson Watkiss ]] || Southwest || California || California || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Teddy Weinberg ]] || Mid-Atlantic || Atlantic Seaboard || New Jersey || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Hunter Rose ]] || Southwest || Sunbelt || Arizona || 2016* || 1  
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Mario Menendez ]] || Mid-Atlantic  || Atlantic Seaboard || New Jersey || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Archibald Foster ]] || Southwest || Sunbelt || Nevada || 2016 || 3
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''Note: * indicates Senators appointed to a vacant Senate seat and Senators who won a special election outside the regular election cycles. For more information please visit [http://www.usgovsim.net/USG/index.php?s=&showtopic=3922&view=findpost&p=47592 www.senate.gov/seniority]
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{{United States Senate elections}}

Current revision as of 23:43, 12 October 2009

United States Senate

The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral United States Congress, the other being the House of Representatives. It is known informally as the "upper house." The Senate consists of 32 senators divided over the 16 regions in USA.

Current majority

After the 2014 elections, the Democratic Party widened its majority in the chamber to a filibuster-proof number of 20 with 12 Republican Senators in the minority. With the resignation of Waylon Grabowski in 2015, the Democrats increased their seats to 21 and the Republicans fell to 11.

Party Seats
Democratic Party 16
Republican Party 16

Senate leadership

The current leadership positions of the Senate are occupied as follows:

  • President of the Senate: Jefferson Pooty
  • President pro tempore:
  • Majority Leader:
  • Majority Whip:
  • Minority Leader:
  • Minority Whip:


  • Chair of Government Regulations and Commerce Committee:
  • Chair of Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and Defense Committee:
  • Chair of Judiciary Committee: [
  • Chair of Domestic Affairs Committee:
  • Ranking Member of Government Regulations and Commerce Committee:
  • Ranking Member of Foreign Relations, Intelligence and Defense Committee:
  • Ranking Member of Judiciary Committee:
  • Ranking Member of Domestic Affairs Committee:

Current Senators By Region

Note: * indicates Senators appointed to a vacant Senate seat and Senators who won a special election outside the regular election cycles. For more information please visit www.senate.gov/seniority
Senator Superregion Region State Elected
Year Cycle
Julian Williams Appalachia Bluegrass Tennessee 2015* 1
Obediah Maysfield Appalachia Bluegrass Tennessee 2012 3
David F. Blount Appalachia Shenandoah Valley North Carolina 2014 1
Sebastian Williams Appalachia Shenandoah Valley North Carolina 2010 2
Braxton S. Morrison Gulf Coast Deep South Louisiana 2013* 2
Patricia Sorenson Gulf Coast Deep South Alabama 2015 3
Alejandro Sanchez Gulf Coast Seminole Florida 2015 1
Dmitri Kowalchuk Gulf Coast Seminole Florida 2010 2
Peter Fossil Heartlands Farmbelt Oklahoma 2013* 1
Elizabeth Cauthon Heartlands Farmbelt Missouri 2011* 3
Basil Louis Taylor Heartlands Texas Texas 2014 2
Buford T. Justice Heartlands Texas Texas 2012 3
Jackson Rockefeller Mid-Atlantic Alleghenies Ohio 2010 2
John Kent Mid-Atlantic Alleghenies Ohio 2010 3
Teddy Weinberg Mid-Atlantic Atlantic Seaboard New Jersey 2010 1
Matt Everson Mid-Atlantic Atlantic Seaboard Maryland 2012 3
Daniel J. Morey Midwest Great Lakes Michigan 2014 2
Thomas Jackson Midwest Great Lakes Michigan 2011 3
Lincoln Winters Midwest Wabash Valley Illinois 2015* 1
Charles Porter Midwest Wabash Valley Illinois 2014* 3
Jennifer Dixon Northeast New England Massachusetts 2013* 1
Ross Kesler Northeast New England Maine 2014 2
Victor Bradshaw Northeast New York New York 2013* 2
Kevin Santos-Carter Northeast New York New York 2012 3
Emma Adcock Northwest Big Sky Country Montana 2014 2
Ken MacLeod Northwest Big Sky Country Montana 2010 3
Ian Joyce Northwest Cascadia Washington 2011* 1
Karen Dayton Devereaux Northwest Cascadia Oregon 2014 2
Quentin Hennessy Southwest California California 2016 1
Jackson Watkiss Southwest California California 2010 2
Hunter Rose Southwest Sunbelt Arizona 2016* 1
Archibald Foster Southwest Sunbelt Nevada 2016 3
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