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*Majority Whip: [[Victor Bradshaw]] (D-NY)
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*Minority Leader: [[Thomas Lane]] (R-UT)
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*Minority Leader: [[Peter Fossil]] (R-OK)
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*Minority Whip: [[Alejandro Sanchez]] (R-FL)
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*Minority Whip: [[Dyson Blount]] (R-NC)
*Chair of Government Regulations and Commerce Committee: [[Edward T. Wyatt]] (D-TX)
*Chair of Government Regulations and Commerce Committee: [[Edward T. Wyatt]] (D-TX)
*Chair of Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and Defense Committee: [[Anthony Sherman]] (D-WA)
*Chair of Foreign Relations, Intelligence, and Defense Committee: [[Anthony Sherman]] (D-WA)
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*Chair of Judiciary Committee: [[Jennifer Dixon]] (D-MA)
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*Chair of Judiciary Committee: [[Kebin Santos-Carter]] (D-NY)
*Chair of Domestic Affairs Committee: [[John Kent]] (D-OH)
*Chair of Domestic Affairs Committee: [[John Kent]] (D-OH)

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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 22
Republican Party 10

Senate leadership

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


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
Edward T. Wyatt 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
Rebekah Merrilin Midwest Great Lakes Michigan 2014 2
Daniel J. Morey Midwest Great Lakes Michigan 2011 3
Lincoln Winters Midwest Wabash Valley Illinois 2015* 1
Angelina Stamford 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
BJ Koo 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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