107TH CONGRESS- in General

SENATE: 50 Democrats, 50 Republicans;
HOUSE: 221 Republicans, 212 Democrats, 2 Independents [1 caucusing with the Democrats, 1 caucusing with the Republicans;
the 54th Administration of GEORGE W. BUSH had nominal control of the Senate at the beginning of the 107th Congress; the Administration also had outright control of the House in the 107th Congress.

107TH CONGRESS- United States SENATE

General Election of 7 November 2000 elected 33 Class 1 SENATE seats
[term: noon, 3 January 2001 to noon, 3 January 2007]
as follows:

• 22 incumbent Senators re-elected:
  • 9 Democrats: Feinstein[CA]; Lieberman[CT]; Akaka[HI]; Sarbanes [MD]; Kennedy[MA]; Bingaman[NM]; Conrad[ND]; Byrd[WV]; Kohl[WI].
  • 13 Republicans: Kyl[AZ]; Lugar[IN]; Snowe[ME]; Lott[MS]; Burns[MT]; DeWine[OH]; Santorum[PA]; Chafee[RI]; Frist[TN]; Hutchison[TX]; Hatch[UT]; Jeffords[VT]; Thomas[WY].
• 11 freshman Senators elected:
  • 9 Democrats: Thomas Carper[DELAWARE]; Bill Nelson[FLORIDA]; Debbie Stabenow[MICHIGAN]; Mark Dayton[MINNESOTA]; Mel Carnahan[MISSOURI] {Carnahan predeceased this Congress}; Ben Nelson[NEBRASKA]; Jon Corzine[NEW JERSEY]; Hillary Rodham Clinton[NEW YORK]; Maria Cantwell[WASHINGTON].
  • 2 Republicans: John Ensign[NEVADA]; George Allen[VIRGINIA].

Mel Carnahan, Democrat candidate for the Class 1 seat (term: noon, 3 January 2001 to noon, 3 January 2007) from MISSOURI, was killed in a plane crash on 16 October 2000; nevertheless, he was posthumously elected to the Senate by the People of the State of Missouri in the General Election of 7 November 2000. His widow, Jean Carnahan, also a Democrat, was appointed by the Governor of the State to fill the vacancy caused by the predecease of Senator-elect Mel Carnahan pending a Special Election to be held at the time of the next General Election on 5 November 2002. It is the posthumous election of Mel Carnahan to this Senate seat that is counted among the 50 Democrats elected to the Senate of the 107th Congress.

Special Election to a seat other than a Class 1
on or after the date of the 2000 General Election
but before the start of the 107th Congress [3 January 2001]:

• Class 3 (term ending noon, 3 January 2005)
  [elected on 7 November 2000]-
  • Zell Miller, Democrat of GEORGIA
    [re: death of Senator Paul Coverdell, 24 July 2000]

Party switches in the SENATE of the 107th Congress:

• 24 May 2001: Senator James Jeffords of VERMONT
  from Republican to INDEPENDENT

107TH CONGRESS- HOUSE of Representatives
elected in the General Election of 7 November 2000
[term: noon, 3 January 2001 to noon, 3 January 2003]

The HOUSE in the 107th Congress included 2 Congressmen from other than the two Major Parties elected by the People of his District in the General Election of 7 November 2000, as follows:

• 2 Independents- Congressman Bernard Sanders of VERMONT (At-Large);
  Congressman Virgil H. Goode, Jr. of VIRGINIA (5th Congressional District)

Congressman Julian C. Dixon, Democrat of the 32nd Congressional District of CALIFORNIA, died on 8 December 2000, during the preceding Congress, after having been re-elected by the People of his District in the General Election of 7 November 2000. The late Congressman Dixon, therefore, is counted among the 212 Democrats elected to the 107th Congress- even though his seat was, obviously, vacant at the start of that Congress on 3 January 2001.