United States Senate

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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:

• President pro tempore: Dmitri Kowalchuk (D-FL)
• Majority Leader: Jackson Rockefeller (D-OH)
• Majority Whip: Victor Bradshaw (D-NY)

• Minority Leader: Peter Fossil (R-OK)
• Minority Whip: Dyson Blount (R-NC)

• 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 Judiciary Committee: Kebin Santos-Carter (D-NY)
• Chair of Domestic Affairs Committee: John Kent (D-OH)

• Ranking Member of Government Regulations and Commerce Committee: Braxton S. Morrison (R-LA)
• Ranking Member of Foreign Relations, Intelligence and Defense Committee: Daniel J. Morey (R-MI)
• Ranking Member of Judiciary Committee: Alejandro Sanchez (R-FL)
• Ranking Member of Domestic Affairs Committee: Elizabeth Cauthon (R-MO)

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
	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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