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| 106th United States Congress | |||
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| Duration: January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2001 | |||
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| President of the Senate: | Al Gore | ||
| President pro tempore: | Strom Thurmond | ||
| Speaker of the House: | Dennis Hastert | ||
| Members: | 100 Senators 435 Representatives 5 Non-voting members |
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| Senate Majority: | Republican Party | ||
| House Majority: | Republican Party | ||
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| 1st: January 6, 1999 – November 22, 1999 2nd: January 24, 2000 – December 15, 2000 |
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The One Hundred Sixth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1999 to January 3, 2001, during the last two years of the second administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton.
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Twenty-first Census of the United States in 1990. Both chambers had a Republican majority.
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Major events
- January 7, 1999 — February 12, 1999: Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton
- March 29, 1999 — Dow Jones Industrial Average ended above 10,000 for the first time.
- April 20, 1999 — Columbine High School massacre
- October 13, 1999 — Senate rejected Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
- December 31, 1999: Y2K bug
- April 3, 2000 — United States v. Microsoft: Federal court held Microsoft liable for anti-trust violations
- November–December 2000: Election of George W. Bush
Major Legislation
- May 21, 1999 — Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act (Kosovo operations), Pub.L. 106-31, 113 Stat. 57
- November 12, 1999 — Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, Pub.L. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338
- November 29, 1999 — American Inventors Protection Act (including Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act), Pub.L. 106-113, 113 Stat. 1536,
- May 18, 2000 — African Growth and Opportunity Act, Pub.L. 106-200, 114 Stat. 251
- June 30, 2000 — Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, Pub.L. 106-229, 114 Stat. 464
- September 22, 2000 — Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, Pub.L. 106-274, 114 Stat. 803,
- October 30, 2000 — Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, Pub.L. 106-390, 114 Stat. 1552
- October 30, 2000 — Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Pub.L. 106-554, 114 Stat. 2763A, (as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001)
Party summary
Senate
Membership changed with two deaths.
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(shading indicates majority caucus)
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| Republican | Democratic | Vacant | ||
| Begin (January 3, 1999) | 55 | 45 | 100 | 0 |
| October 25, 1999 | 54 | 99 | 1 | |
| November 2, 1999 | 55 | 100 | 0 | |
| July 19, 2000 | 54 | 99 | 1 | |
| July 25, 2000 | 46 | 100 | 0 | |
| Latest voting share | 54% | 46% | ||
House of Representatives
| Affiliation | Members | Voting share |
Delegates and Resident Commissioner |
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| Republican | 223 | 51.3% | 1 | ||
| Democratic | 211 | 48.6% | 4 | ||
| Independent | 1 | 0.2% | - | Caucuses with the Democrats | |
| Vacant | 0 | 0.0% | - | ||
| Total | 435 | 5 | |||
Leadership
Senate
Majority (Republican) leadership
Minority (Democratic) leadership
House of Representatives
- Speaker: Dennis Hastert (R)
Majority (Republican) leadership
Minority (Democratic) leadership
Members
Senate
- See also: Category: United States Senators
- See also: Category: United States Congressional Delegations by state
House of Representatives
| 80.1-100% Republican | 80.1-100% Democratic |
| 60.1-80% Republican | 60.1-80% Democratic |
| House seats by party holding plurality in state | |
- See also: Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives and Category:United States Congressional Delegations by state
| Alabama — Alaska — Arizona — Arkansas — California — Colorado — Connecticut — Delaware — Florida — Georgia — Hawaii — Idaho — Illinois — Indiana — Iowa — Kansas — Kentucky — Louisiana — Maine — Maryland — Massachusetts — Michigan — Minnesota — Mississippi — Missouri — Montana — Nebraska — Nevada — New Hampshire — New Jersey — New Mexico — New York — North Carolina — North Dakota — Ohio — Oklahoma — Oregon — Pennsylvania — Rhode Island — South Carolina — South Dakota — Tennessee — Texas — Utah — Vermont — Virginia — Washington — West Virginia — Wisconsin — Wyoming
American Samoa — District of Columbia — Guam — Puerto Rico — Virgin Islands |
The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide at-large, are preceded by an "At Large," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.
Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.