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American politician (1934–2014)
Democrats held both chambers of Congress (House and Senate) together during the 21st century in the 110th Congress (2007–2009) after the 2006 elections and again during the 117th Congress (2021–2023) ...
Horace Greeley and the 1872 Liberal Republican movement are the clearest historical examples of politicians who identified explicitly as , while modern usage of the label is more informal and applied ...
An independent senator who formally , because majority status in the chamber depends on which senators are counted with each party for purposes of organizing committees, setting the floor schedule, an...
by sitting members have occasionally changed which party controls a chamber of Congress, with the most consequential modern example being ’ 2001 defection that flipped Senate control; other switches i...
since 2001—party switches, deaths, appointments and special elections—have repeatedly shifted control or effective control of the Senate, sometimes for days and sometimes for the remainder of a Congre...
Since 2001, the Senate’s party control has changed in midterm elections on three occasions: the ( gained the majority), the ( gained the majority), and the (Republicans regained the majority) — a patt...
Major midterm “waves” that flipped Senate control are rare but consequential: the gains (after the Jeffords defection set up a narrow balance) and the 1986–– cycles when the president’s party suffered...
controlled both of Representatives and at several discrete intervals in the 21st century: briefly in 2001, continuously from 2003 through 2006, and again in the two consecutive Congresses spanning 201...
—where the president’s party also controls both chambers of —has been intermittent ; held unified control during the under and again during 2021–2022 under . Contemporary commentators note that unifie...