As of the 2012 election, there are 53 Democratic Senators, plus 2 independents who caucus with the Democrats. There are 45 Republicans.
57 US Senators are Democrats, and two independent Senators (Bernard Sanders and Joe Lieberman) are also members of the Democratic Caucus.
currently: 53
beginning Jan. 3, 2013: 55
the Democrats control the Senate in 2011
Congress. The senate is controlled by the democrats, the house by republicans.
The democrats are the majority party in the senate and the house. The democrats are majority party in the congress of 2007.
There will be 197 democrats and 242 republicans.
110th congress has 202 republicans and 233 democrats in the House of Representatives. AND...49 republicans, 49 democrats, and 2 independents in the Senate.
As of now, the Democrats in the US Senate lost 8 seats to the Republicans. There will be more Republicans in the Senate, now, than Democrats, meaning the the Republicans will control the Senate. They already control the House.
The Democrats did not have majorities in the House and Senate for very long-- about twenty-two months total. Mr. Obama took office in January 2009 when both the house and senate were majority Democrats. But by November 2010, when the mid-term elections took place, the House changed control to the Republicans. And the Democrats still maintained a slim majority in the Senate.
During the 113th Congress (2013-2015), Democrats control the Senate and Republicans control the House of Representatives.
The first half was controlled completely by democrats. The second half controlled by the republicans in the house, and democrats in the senate which would give democrats the majority
There are 56 members in the senate
As of May 2021, there are 219 Democrats serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and 50 Democrats serving in the U.S. Senate, making a total of 269 Democrats in Congress.
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