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== Current majority ==
== Current majority ==
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After the [[United States Senate elections, 2010|2010 elections]], the Senate was evenly divided 16-16. However, after Cascadia Democratic Senator [[Danielle Morgenthau]] resigned, Republican Governor [[Eric Morrison]] appointed her replacement, giving the Senate to the Republicans.
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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]] || '''17'''
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| bgcolor="blue"| || '''[[Democratic Party]] || '''16'''
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[Democratic Party]]''' || 15
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[Republican Party]]''' || 16
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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: [[Jefferson Pooty]] (R-LA)
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*President of the Senate: [[Jefferson Pooty]]
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*Majority Leader: [[Ken MacLeod]] (R-MT)
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*President pro tempore:
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*Majority Whip: [[Oscar Perry]] (R-LA)
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*Majority Leader:  
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*Majority Whip:  
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*Minority Leader: [[Esther Cullen]] (D-KY)
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*Minority Leader:  
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*Minority Whip: [[George Jameson]] (D-IL)
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*Minority Whip:  
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*Chair of Government Regulations and Commerce Committee: [[Jefferson Pooty]] (R-LA)
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*Chair of Government Regulations and Commerce Committee:  
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*Chair of Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and Defense Committee: [[Terry Hughes]] (R-MO)
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*Chair of Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and Defense Committee:  
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*Chair of Judiciary Committee: [[David Summerville]] (R-NC)
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*Chair of Judiciary Committee: [
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*Chair of Domestic Affairs Committee: [[James Lightfoot]] (R-ID)
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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"| || [[ Bryan McLaggen ]] || Appalachia || Bluegrass || Kentucky || 2011* || 1  
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Julian Williams ]] || Appalachia || Bluegrass || Tennessee || 2015* || 1  
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Esther Cullen ]] || Appalachia || Bluegrass || Kentucky || 2010 || 3  
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Obediah Maysfield ]] || Appalachia || Bluegrass || Tennessee || 2012 || 3  
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ David Summerville ]] || Appalachia || Shenandoah Valley || North Carolina || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ David F. Blount ]] || Appalachia || Shenandoah Valley || North Carolina || 2014 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Sebastian Williams ]] || Appalachia || Shenandoah Valley || North Carolina || 2010 || 2
| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Sebastian Williams ]] || Appalachia || Shenandoah Valley || North Carolina || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Oscar Perry ]] || Gulf Coast || Deep South || Louisiana || 2010 || 2  
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Braxton S. Morrison ]] || Gulf Coast || Deep South || Louisiana || 2013* || 2  
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Jefferson Pooty ]] || Gulf Coast || Deep South || Lousiana || 2010 || 3  
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Patricia Sorenson ]] || Gulf Coast || Deep South || Alabama || 2015 || 3  
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Sergei Kerzhakov ]] || Gulf Coast || Seminole || Florida || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Alejandro Sanchez ]] || Gulf Coast || Seminole || Florida || 2015 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Dmitri Kowalchuk ]] || Gulf Coast || Seminole || Florida || 2010 || 2
| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Dmitri Kowalchuk ]] || Gulf Coast || Seminole || Florida || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Terry Hughes ]] || Heartlands || Farmbelt || Missouri || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Peter Fossil ]] || Heartlands || Farmbelt || Oklahoma || 2013* || 1
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Elizabeth Cauthon ]] || Heartlands || Farmbelt || Missouri || 2011* || 3
| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Elizabeth Cauthon ]] || Heartlands || Farmbelt || Missouri || 2011* || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Herbert Nielson ]] || Heartlands || Texas || Texas || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Basil Louis Taylor  ]] || Heartlands || Texas || Texas || 2014 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ A. A. Abbingdon ]] || Heartlands || Texas || Texas || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[Buford T. Justice]] || Heartlands || Texas || Texas || 2012 || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Jackson Rockefeller ]] || Mid-Atlantic || Alleghenies || Ohio || 2010 || 2
| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Jackson Rockefeller ]] || Mid-Atlantic || Alleghenies || Ohio || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Teddy Weinberg ]] || Mid-Atlantic || Atlantic Seaboard || New Jersey || 2010 || 1
| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Teddy Weinberg ]] || Mid-Atlantic || Atlantic Seaboard || New Jersey || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Mario Menendez ]] || Mid-Atlantic  || Atlantic Seaboard || New Jersey || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Matt Everson ]] || Mid-Atlantic  || Atlantic Seaboard || Maryland || 2012 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Pat Larson ]] || Midwest || Great Lakes || Minnesota || 2011* || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Daniel J. Morey ]] || Midwest || Great Lakes || Michigan || 2014 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Daniel Morey ]] || Midwest || Great Lakes || Michigan || 2011* || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Thomas Jackson ]] || Midwest || Great Lakes || Michigan || 2011 || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ George Jameson ]] || Midwest || Wabash Valley || Illinois || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Lincoln Winters ]] || Midwest || Wabash Valley || Illinois || 2015* || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Jimmy Kennedy ]] || Midwest || Wabash Valley || Illinois || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Charles Porter ]] || Midwest || Wabash Valley || Illinois || 2014* || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Natalie Roberts ]] || Northeast || New England || New Hampshire || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Jennifer Dixon ]] || Northeast || New England || Massachusetts || 2013* || 1
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Madison Ballentine ]] || Northeast || New England || Connecticut || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Ross Kesler ]] || Northeast || New England || Maine || 2014 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Archie Sanford ]] || Northeast || New York || New York || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Victor Bradshaw ]] || Northeast || New York || New York || 2013* || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Willow Jaynes ]] || Northeast || New York || New York || 2010 || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Kevin Santos-Carter ]] || Northeast || New York || New York || 2012 || 3
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ James Lightfoot ]] || Northwest || Big Sky Country || Idaho || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Emma Adcock ]] || Northwest || Big Sky Country || Montana || 2014 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Ken MacLeod ]] || Northwest || Big Sky Country || Montana || 2010 || 3  
| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Ken MacLeod ]] || Northwest || Big Sky Country || Montana || 2010 || 3  
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Anthony Sherman ]] || Northwest || Cascadia || Washington || 2011* || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Ian Joyce ]] || Northwest || Cascadia || Washington || 2011* || 1
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Dahlia Karcin  ]] || Northwest || Cascadia || Oregon || 2011* || 3
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Karen Dayton Devereaux ]] || Northwest || Cascadia || Oregon || 2014 || 2
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| bgcolor="blue"| || [[ Olude Carter ]] || Southwest || California || California || 2010 || 1
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Quentin Hennessy ]] || Southwest || California || California || 2016 || 1
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Jackson Watkiss ]] || Southwest || California || California || 2010 || 2
| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Jackson Watkiss ]] || Southwest || California || California || 2010 || 2
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| bgcolor="red"| ||[[ Markus Rasan ]] || Southwest || Sunbelt || Arizona || 2010 || 1  
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| bgcolor="blue"| ||[[ Hunter Rose ]] || Southwest || Sunbelt || Arizona || 2016* || 1  
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| bgcolor="red"| || [[ Thomas Caffee ]] || Southwest || Sunbelt || Nevada || 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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