Based on the November 2016 elections the Republican Party has a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
A political party that has a strong majority in the House of Representatives gets to choose the speaker.
The majority party is the party to which the most representatives or senators belong. The other party is the minority party.
Democrats maintain a majority of both the US Senate and House of Representatives, and have since the election of 2006.
The Democrats, hold a majority of seats in the US House of Representatives, and Senate.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The Speaker of the House is elected by the members of the House of Representatives. Before the vote each party chooses their candidate. The majority party's candidate will then win the election (assuming his or her party's representatives vote according to the party's decision).
The majority party in the US House of Representatives elects the person who will become the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This is a powerful position in the US Congress.
Republicans hold the State Senate with a 30 to 20 majority and the Democrats hold the House with a 104 to 99 majority.
The Republicans are the majority party in the House of Representatives. The Democrats are the majority party in the Senate.
Speaker of the House
That depends which one was the original, "non-other" party. There are the dozens of political parties. To get to the point, the two major political parties in the US are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. As of early 2011, there is a Democratic president, a majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives and a majority of Democrats in the Senate.
Speaker of the House of Representatives. They are normally a senior member of the majority party in the House, and are chosen by their party for the position.