Give me those numbers one more time -- U.S. Senate

Republicans currently hold 51 slots in the 100-seat chamber. Democrats hold 48 seats, and they can usually count on the vote of Sen. Jim Jeffords, a Vermont independent who briefly swung control of the Senate to Democrats when he left the Republican Party in 2001.

Democrats [are] eager to recapture the upper chamber they have held for just 18 months out of the past 10 years.

Morris News Service