90th United States Congress
1967–1969 U.S. Congress / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 90th 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, D.C., from January 3, 1967, to January 3, 1969, during the last two years of President Lyndon B. Johnson's second term in office.
90th United States Congress | |
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89th ← → 91st | |
January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1969 | |
Members | 100 senators 435 representatives |
Senate majority | Democratic |
Senate President | Hubert Humphrey (D) |
House majority | Democratic |
House Speaker | John W. McCormack (D) |
Sessions | |
1st: January 10, 1967 – December 15, 1967 2nd: January 15, 1968 – October 14, 1968 |
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1960 United States census.
Both chambers had a Democratic majority; however, the Democrats lost seats in both the Senate and the House, which cost them both their 2/3rds supermajority in the Senate and their supermajority status in the House. Along with President Johnson, the Democrats maintained an overall federal government trifecta.