GUIDE
TO THE NEW
CONGRESS
Election results and analysis, profiles of new members
and a preview of the 110th Congress
Thursday, November 9, 2006 ■ Volume 42, Number 146
CQToday, Thursday, November 9, 2006
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CONTENTS
Outlook for the 110th Congress
4
Senate will lack firm governing majority
8
Senate election results
9
Dates to watch
10
Virginia cliffhanger key to Senate control
11
Lame duck may leave funding bills for 110th
14
House Democrats feel ‘urgency’
15
Select House election results
16
Democratic wave sinks GOP House majority
19
The new senators
23-27
The new representatives
28-36, 49-59
House committees
37
Senate seats up in 2008
42
Senate committees
43
State delegations
46
Departing members of the 109th
60
Impact on House committees
62-63, 67-72
Likely new House committee chairmen
64
Assigning members to House committees
67
Impact on Senate committees
73-75, 78-82
Assigning members to Senate committees
74
Statistics of the new Congress
76
GUIDE
TO THE
NEW CONGRESS
The nation’s experiment with unified
government has come to an abrupt end.
Democrats have taken control of the
House for the first time since 1994 and
appear to have taken over the Senate
by a single seat. At best, Republicans’
hopes now rest with a recount in Vir-
ginia’s Senate race to produce a major-
ity that would depend on Vice President
Dick Cheney’s tie-breaking vote. In any
event, the Bush White House will
spend the last two years of the presi-
dent’s second term in a decidedly dif-
ferent power relationship with the leg-
islative branch of government.
No doubt, top-level administration
officials are spending this week the
same way as readers of this publication:
learning who will be the new chairmen
of committees, evaluating their politi-
cal agendas and trying to plan for new
legislative priorities.
This guide is your first look at the peo-
ple and politics that will drive the action
on Capitol Hill. You can read about each
committee, every new chairman and
each freshman. CQ reporters also ana-
lyze changes to Washington’s pow