in the year 2000 during the 106th Congress the Republican Party controlled the US Seante
The House majority is the Republican party, but the Senate it is the Democratic party.
The highest ranking member of the majority party in the House of Representatives is the Speaker of the House. The party with the most seats in the US Senate, elects a "majority leader".
The Oregon House of Representatives is evenly split between Republican and Democratic Parties. The Oregon State Senate has a Democratic majority.
In the US congress, the party that holds the majority gets to select the chairmen & women, and decide who will run important committees. In the 2014 mid-term elections, the Republicans won the most seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; so, as the majority party, they became able to name members of their own party to all of the major committees. When the Democrats controlled the Senate or the House (or both), it was their party that named these committee leaders.
The Republicans had Senate majority until the 2006 Congressional Elections when Democrats took the majority. The National Republican Senatorial Committee works to gain a Republican majority Senate, hoping to in the 2010 Congressional elections.
majority party
The Democratic party currently holds a majority in the senate, and therefore selects the senate majority leader and the senate committee chairs.
The Democratic Party is in the majority in the US Senate.
The House majority is the Republican party, but the Senate it is the Democratic party.
If you are asking wich political party is currently in the majority, and thus in control of the Senate - as of November 2011, it is the Democrat Party.
The Republicans are the majority party in the House of Representatives. The Democrats are the majority party in the Senate.
The political party with the greatest number of members in the Senate is referred to as the majority party.
As of 2011 it is Republican which really messed up Obama.
the current Senate Majority Leader is Harry Reid (D) of Nevada
Senate Majority Whip
Democrat. currently.
Majority party