Democratic Party (United States) and Related Topics

Republican Party (United States)

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One of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

Political Spectrum Libertarian Left Centrist Right Authoritarian

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

Joe Biden

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American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States.

Results of the 1972 U.S. Senate election in Delaware

Biden and his second wife, Jill, met in 1975 and married in 1977

Biden shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan, 1984

Biden speaking at the signing of the 1994 Crime Bill with President Bill Clinton in 1994

Senator Biden accompanies President Clinton and other officials to Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 1997

Biden addresses the press after meeting with Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in Baghdad in 2004.

Biden campaigns at a house party in Creston, Iowa, July 2007

Biden speaks at the August 23, 2008, vice presidential announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois

Biden being sworn in as vice president on January 20, 2009

President Obama congratulates Biden for his role in shaping the debt ceiling deal which led to the Budget Control Act of 2011.

Biden, Obama and the national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor the progress of the May 2011 mission to kill Osama bin Laden

Biden with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016

Biden with Vice President-elect Mike Pence on November 10, 2016

Biden with Barack Obama and Donald Trump, at the latter's inauguration on January 20, 2017

Biden at his presidential kickoff rally in Philadelphia, May 2019

Biden takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2021

Biden meeting with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office, June 7, 2021

Biden in a video conference with Vice President Harris and the U.S. National Security team, discussing the Fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021

Biden, UK prime minister Boris Johnson and UN secretary-general António Guterres at the opening ceremony of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on November 1, 2021

Biden with Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Oval Office

Biden with refugees from Ukraine in Warsaw, March 2022

President Barack Obama and Biden talk with Xi Jinping, February 14, 2012

President Obama presents Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, January 12, 2017

Biden at a rally on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, February 2020

Biden and Ketanji Brown Jackson watching the U.S. Senate vote on her confirmation, April 2022.

A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.

Barack Obama

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American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, (L to R) mid-1970s in Honolulu

Barack Obama's school record in St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School. Obama was enrolled as "Barry Soetoro" (no. 1), and was wrongly recorded as an Indonesian citizen (no. 3) and a Muslim (no. 4).

Obama poses in the Green Room of the White House with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, 2009

Obama playing in a pickup game on the White House basketball court, 2009

The Obamas worship at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., January 2013

State Senator Obama and others celebrate the naming of a street in Chicago after ShoreBank co-founder Milton Davis in 1998

Results of the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois; Obama won the counties in blue.

Official portrait of Obama as a member of the United States Senate

Obama and U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) visit a Russian facility for dismantling mobile missiles (August 2005)

Obama on stage with wife and daughters just before announcing presidential candidacy in Springfield, Illinois, February 10, 2007

2008 electoral vote results. Obama won 365–173.

2012 electoral vote results. Obama won 332–206.

Obama takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2009

Obama delivers a speech at joint session of Congress with Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on February 24, 2009.

Obama visits an Aurora shooting victim at University of Colorado Hospital, 2012.

The White House was illuminated in rainbow colors on the evening of the Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling, June 26, 2015.

US employment statistics (unemployment rate and monthly changes in net employment) during Obama's tenure as U.S. president

Obama at a 2010 briefing on the BP oil spill at the Coast Guard Station Venice in Venice, Louisiana

Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House, March 23, 2010.

Maximum Out-of-Pocket Premium as Percentage of Family Income and federal poverty level, under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, starting in 2014 (Source: CRS)

Percentage of Individuals in the United States without Health Insurance, 1963–2015 (Source: JAMA)

June 4, 2009 − after his speech A New Beginning at Cairo University, U.S. President Obama participates in a roundtable interview in 2009 with among others Jamal Khashoggi, Bambang Harymurti and Nahum Barnea.

Obama with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, January 2015.

Obama meets with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House, October 2016.

Meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron during the 2010 G20 Toronto summit

Obama after a trilateral meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (right), White House Cabinet Room, May 2009

Obama meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office, May 2009

President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015.

Obama and members of the national security team receive an update on Operation Neptune's Spear in the White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011. See also: Situation Room

Obama talks with Benjamin Netanyahu, March 2013.

President Obama meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro in Panama, April 2015

Obama meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in September 2015.

G8 leaders watching the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final

Obama with his then-new successor Donald Trump and his later successor Joe Biden, at the former's inauguration on January 20, 2017

Obama playing golf with the President of Argentina Mauricio Macri, October 2017

Obama and his wife Michelle at the inauguration of Joe Biden

Job growth during the presidency of Obama compared to other presidents, as measured as a cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of his term

First official portrait of Barack Obama as President of the United States, 2009

Obama meets with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa, February 19, 2009.

Obama and Donald Trump, January 20, 2017

A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president of the United States.

Bill Clinton

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American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Clinton in Hot Springs High School's 1963 yearbook

Photo of Clinton at age 17 shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy at the White House in 1963

Clinton ran for president of the Student Council while attending the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Results of the 1978 Arkansas gubernatorial election. Clinton won the counties in blue.

Newly elected Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton meets with President Jimmy Carter, 1978

Governor and Mrs. Clinton attend the Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors in the White House with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, 1987.

The Clintons in a White House Christmas portrait

1992 electoral vote results. Clinton won 370–168.

1996 electoral vote results. Clinton won 379–159.

Clinton and Vice President Al Gore on the South Lawn, August 10, 1993

Yitzhak Rabin, Clinton and Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993

Clinton's coat of arms, granted by the Chief Herald of Ireland in 1995

Future president Donald Trump and Clinton shaking hands at Trump Tower, June 2000

Col. Paul Fletcher, USAF and Clinton speak before boarding Air Force One, November 4, 1999

Clinton shaking hands with Gerry Adams outside a business in East Belfast, November 30, 1995

Clinton plays the saxophone presented to him by Russian president Boris Yeltsin at a private dinner in Russia, January 13, 1994

Clinton during a briefing on Kosovo, March 31, 1999.

Clinton and Chinese president Jiang Zemin holding a joint press conference at the White House, October 29, 1997

Ruth Bader Ginsburg accepting her nomination to the Supreme Court from President Clinton, 1993

Clinton's approval ratings throughout his presidential career (Roper Center)

Clinton addressing the Parliament of Great Britain on November 29, 1995

Clinton and Monica Lewinsky on February 28, 1997

Clinton greets a Hurricane Katrina evacuee, September 5, 2005. In the background, second from the right, is then-Senator Barack Obama.

Former president George H. W. Bush and Clinton in the White House Library, January 2005

Clinton speaking at the 2008 Democratic National Convention

The state funeral of George H. W. Bush in December 2018

Clinton with then-President Barack Obama and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett in July 2010

Clinton, his wife Hillary, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York City on September 29, 2014

Clinton campaigning at an election rally for his wife Hillary who was running for President of the United States, 2016

Clinton speaking at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

Secretary of Defense Cohen presents President Clinton the DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

Bill Clinton statue in Ballybunion, erected to commemorate his 1998 golfing visit

Bill Clinton statue in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo

Former President Bill Clinton is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then president Barack Obama.

Clinton during the signing of the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, with Yitzhak Rabin (left) and King Hussein of Jordan (right)

A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton became known as a New Democrat, as many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy.

2016 United States presidential election

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The 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

The incumbent in 2016, Barack Obama. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 2017.

Campaign signs of third-party candidates Jill Stein and Gary Johnson, October 2016 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont

A general election ballot, listing the presidential and vice presidential candidates

Trump campaigns in Phoenix, Arizona, October 29, 2016

Clinton campaigns in Raleigh, North Carolina, October 22, 2016

President Barack Obama casting his vote early in Chicago on October 7, 2016

Vote margin swing by state 2012 to 2016. Only twelve states (as well as the District of Columbia and Nebraka's 2nd congressional district) shifted more Democratic. The large swing in Utah is mostly due to the votes for third candidate Evan McMullin and the 2012 candidacy of Utah's Mitt Romney.

Final polling averages for the 2016 election by state. Polls from lightly shaded states are older than September 1, 2016.

Results by state, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Results by vote distribution among states. The size of each state's pie chart is proportional to its number of electoral votes.

Results by county. Red denotes counties that went to Trump; blue denotes counties that went to Clinton.

Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

A discontinuous cartogram of the 2016 United States presidential election

A continuous cartogram of the 2016 United States presidential election

A discretized cartogram of the 2016 United States presidential election using squares

A discretized cartogram of the 2016 United States presidential election using hexagons

Results of election by congressional district, shaded by winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Results by county, shaded according to percentage of the vote for Johnson

Results by county, shaded according to percentage of the vote for Jill Stein

Results by state, shaded according to margin of victory

The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and the United States senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, in what was considered one of the greatest upsets in American history.

Percent of self-identified liberals by state in 2018, according to a Gallup poll:

Modern liberalism in the United States

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Form of social liberalism found in American politics.

Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, adherents of the Third Way

Since the 1960s, the Democratic Party has been considered liberal and the Republican Party has been considered conservative.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

Seven-year-old Johnson with his trademark cowboy hat, c. 1915.

Johnson's boyhood home in Johnson City, Texas

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor James V. Allred of Texas, and Johnson, 1937. Johnson later used an edited version of this photo, with Allred airbrushed out, in his 1941 senatorial campaign.

Senate Desk X, used by all Democratic leaders, including Johnson, since Joseph Taylor Robinson

Johnson giving "The Treatment" to Senator Richard Russell in 1963, shortly after becoming president.

President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson outside the White House prior to a ceremony

Vice President Johnson and Attorney General Robert Kennedy meeting with civil rights leaders at the White House on June 22, 1963.

Opening Day of the 1961 baseball season. President Kennedy throws out the first ball at Griffith Stadium, the home field of the Washington Senators, as LBJ and Hubert Humphrey look on.

Vice President Johnson visiting Finland in September 1963; here seen with Mrs. Johnson, while Urho Kekkonen, the President of Finland, welcomes them.

LBJ is sworn in on Air Force One by Judge Sarah Hughes as Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Kennedy look on.

Meeting with civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. (left), Whitney Young, and James Farmer in the Oval Office in 1964

President Lyndon Johnson (left), alongside Illinois AFL-CIO President Reuben Soderstrom (center) and Vice President Stanley Johnson (right), speaks to the delegates of the 1964 Illinois AFL-CIO convention.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965

President Johnson signs the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 as Sen. Edward Kennedy, Sen. Robert Kennedy, and others look on

Former president Truman and wife Bess at Medicare Bill signing in 1965, as Lady Bird and Hubert Humphrey look on

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson (center left) and Vice President Spiro Agnew (center right) witness the liftoff of Apollo 11.

Aftermath from a race riot in Washington D.C., April 1968

Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ with Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos on September 12, 1966

Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen Farah Pahlavi with the Johnsons on their visit to the United States

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and General Westmoreland in Vietnam 1965

Awarding a medal to a U.S. soldier during a visit to Vietnam in 1966

Philippines President Marcos hosting the leaders of SEATO nations during the Manila Conference on the Vietnam War

Johnson talking with his Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 1967

Vietnam War protestors march at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on October 21, 1967. Support for the war was dropping and the anti-Vietnam War movement strengthened.

Walt Whitman Rostow shows President Lyndon B. Johnson a model of the Khe Sanh area in February 1968

Tens of thousands of civilians were killed during the American bombing of North Vietnam in Operation Rolling Thunder.

Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin (left) next to Johnson during the Glassboro Summit Conference

Countries visited by Johnson during his presidency

President Johnson meets with Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the White House, July 1968.

Johnson in the Oval Office in 1969, a few days before Richard Nixon's inauguration

With the appointment of Thurgood Marshall, Johnson placed the first African American on the Supreme Court.

Johnson with longer hair during an interview in August 1972, five months before his death

Johnson wearing a cowboy hat at his ranch in Texas, 1972

Johnson lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda

Johnson's image as it appears in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Johnson with his family in the Yellow Oval Room, Christmas 1968

Front view of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum located on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas

Entrance to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac

A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a U.S. representative, U.S. senator and the Senate's majority leader.

George W. Bush

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American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

George W. Bush with his parents, Barbara and George H. W. Bush, c. undefined 1947

Governor Bush (right) with father, former president George H. W. Bush, and wife, Laura, 1997

George W. Bush re-election campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Deficit and debt increases from 2001 to 2009. Gross debt has increased over $500billion each year since the 2003 fiscal year.

President Bush signing the No Child Left Behind Act into law, January 8, 2002

President Bush delivering a statement on energy, urging Congress to end offshore oil drill ban, June 18, 2008

President Bush discussing border security with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff near El Paso, November 2005

President Bush with hurricane victims in Biloxi, September 2, 2005

President Bush announcing his nomination of Alberto Gonzales as the next U.S. Attorney General, November 10, 2004

Countries visited by President George W. Bush during his time in office

President Bush with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Shanghai, October 21, 2001. Russia had cooperated with the U.S. in the war on terror.

President Bush, beside firefighter Bob Beckwith, addressing rescue workers at the World Trade Center site

Countries with major military operations throughout the war on terror launched by Bush, including those launched after his presidency

President Bush and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan in Kabul, March 1, 2006

President Bush, with Naval Flight Officer Lieutenant Ryan Philips, after landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln prior to his Mission Accomplished speech, May 1, 2003

Gallup/USA Today Bush public opinion polling from February 2001 to January 2009

Protest against the Iraq War in New London, Connecticut on May 23, 2007

Countries with a U.S. military presence in 2007

Charlie Strong (left), Texas Longhorns head football coach, George W. Bush and Reverend Jesse Jackson hold up a Texas Longhorns football jersey at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2014

Bush eulogizing his father at the National Cathedral, December 5, 2018

George W. Bush and Laura at the inauguration of Joe Biden

George W. Bush Presidential Center, on the campus of Southern Methodist University

Bush on January 20, 2001 in Washington D.C., the day of his first inauguration as President of the United States.

Former President George W. Bush and his wife being escorted to a waiting helicopter by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on January 20, 2009.

In the 2000 presidential election, Bush defeated Democratic incumbent Vice President Al Gore after a narrow and contested win that involved a Supreme Court decision to stop a recount in Florida.

Jimmy Carter

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American former politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

The Carter family store (part of Carter's Boyhood Farm) in Plains, Georgia

Carter with Rosalynn Smith and his mother at his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy on June 5, 1946

President Jimmy Carter, his wife and Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, USN (wearing tie) aboard the submarine USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) in 1977

Results of the 1970 gubernatorial election in Georgia, with blue counties supporting Carter and red ones voting for Hal Suit: the relative darkness of the shade shows greater support for a candidate.

Carter's official portrait as Governor of Georgia

Jimmy Carter's campaign button announcing his campaign with the slogan, "My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm running for President."

Carter and President Gerald Ford debating at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia

Image of President Carter displayed in the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC. Portrait by Robert Templeton.

Newly elected governor of Arkansas and future president Bill Clinton meets with President Carter in 1978.

Carter signing the Airline Deregulation Act, 1978

Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin meet on the Aspen Lodge patio of Camp David on September 6, 1978.

First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, and Carter, 1977

Carter with Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo on April 1, 1978

Carter with King Hussein of Jordan and Shah of Iran in 1977

Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signing the SALT II treaty at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, June 18, 1979

Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Zbigniew Brzezinski in September 1978

King Khalid of Saudi Arabia and Carter, October 1978

Countries visited by Carter during his presidency

Carter (third from left) with Martti Ahtisaari, William Hague, and Lakhdar Brahimi from The Elders group in London, July 24, 2013.

The state funeral of George H. W. Bush in December 2018. Carter and his wife Rosalynn can be seen on the far right of the photograph.

Carter with Justice Harry Blackmun, known for his Roe v. Wade majority opinion authorship

Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran, holds Jimmy Carter IV while Rosalynn Carter, Caron Carter and Chip Carter watch, January 1978.

James Earl Carter Presidential Statue by Frederick Hart (1994)

alt=Carter, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton standing next to each other.|Carter (right), walks with, from left, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton during the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas on November 18, 2004

alt=Carter sitting in front of the U.S. flag|Carter during a Google Hangout session held during the LBJ Presidential Library Civil Rights Summit in 2014

alt=Carter, Obama, and Clinton standing together.|Carter (right) with President Barack Obama (center) and Bill Clinton (left) on August 28, 2013, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington

alt=Carter observing a model replica of the USS Jimmy Carter, named after him.|Carter (left) with a replica of the {{USS|Jimmy Carter|SSN-23|6}} with Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton (right) at a naming ceremony, April 28, 1998

alt=The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum during the daytime.|Jimmy Carter Library and Museum located in Atlanta, Georgia

Carter standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, during his 1979 visit

A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967.

In 1868, this committee of representatives prosecuted President Andrew Johnson in his impeachment trial, but the Senate did not convict him.

United States Congress

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Legislature of the federal government of the United States.

The 1940 painting Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, depicting George Washington presiding over the signing of the United States Constitution.

Historical graph of party control of the Senate, House, and Presidency. Since 1980, the Democrats have held the Presidency for four terms, but because of the Senate filibuster, have only been able to freely legislate in two years. The Republicans have been similarly disabled.

Congress's "power of the purse" authorizes taxing citizens, spending money, and printing currency.

Congress authorizes defense spending such as the purchase of the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31).

Congress oversees other government branches, for example, the Senate Watergate Committee, investigating President Nixon and Watergate, in 1973–74.

View of the United States Capitol from the United States Supreme Court building

The impeachment trial of President Clinton in 1999, Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding

Second committee room in Congress Hall in Philadelphia

Lobbying depends on cultivating personal relationships over many years. Photo: Lobbyist Tony Podesta (left) with former senator Kay Hagan (center) and her husband.

The House Financial Services committee meets. Committee members sit in the tiers of raised chairs, while those testifying, and audience members sit below.

In this example, the more even distribution is on the left and the gerrymandering is presented on the right.

The Federalist Papers argued in favor of a strong connection between citizens and their representatives.

Although not legally mandated, in practice since the 19th century, Congress members are typically affiliated with one of the two major parties, the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, and only rarely with a third party or independents affiliated with no party.

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