By — Lisa Desjardins Lisa Desjardins By — Megan Crigger Megan Crigger Leave a comment 0comments Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/big-change-white-house-congress-not-much Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Big change in the White House. Congress? Not so much Politics Dec 28, 2016 11:53 AM EDT The dramatic change coming to the White House got us thinking about the near lack of change at the U.S. Capitol this year. In total, the Senate numbers shifted by two seats and the House by six. Both were Democratic gains, but Republicans still control both chambers. We put together these graphs of the shifts in the House and Senate over the last 36 years. The lines show the number of members of each party (blue for Democrats, red for Republicans), with the line on top showing the party in control. In the House, note the long periods without significant change. Versus the more regular change recently in the Senate. By — Lisa Desjardins Lisa Desjardins Lisa Desjardins is a correspondent for PBS NewsHour, where she covers news from the U.S. Capitol while also traveling across the country to report on how decisions in Washington affect people where they live and work. @LisaDNews By — Megan Crigger Megan Crigger
The dramatic change coming to the White House got us thinking about the near lack of change at the U.S. Capitol this year. In total, the Senate numbers shifted by two seats and the House by six. Both were Democratic gains, but Republicans still control both chambers. We put together these graphs of the shifts in the House and Senate over the last 36 years. The lines show the number of members of each party (blue for Democrats, red for Republicans), with the line on top showing the party in control. In the House, note the long periods without significant change. Versus the more regular change recently in the Senate.