The Caucus +
119th Congress

Capitol Hill

Democrats are in the minority in both chambers. That means no gavels. What they have instead is the ranking member slot on every committee and subcommittee, which is where the oversight letters, the minority witnesses and the floor strategy come from. Here is who holds what, and what November does to it.

Committees
45
Subcommittees
187
Posts in all
232
Democrats holding one
189
39 posts

Leadership

Every elected post in both chambers, with a line on what the job involves. The titles are not much help on their own.

See the ladder
45 committees

Committees

Every standing, select and joint committee, who leads it for the Democrats, and the 187 subcommittee slots underneath.

Open the list
32 members

What November moves

Members with a post who are retiring, who gave up the seat for another office, or whose race we do not call safe.

See the exposure

Holding a post, not holding a safe seat

Anything we do not rate Safe D
All 13 of them, with the retirements

About this section

Nobody publishes committee rosters as a feed, so this is typed by hand from the committees' own pages and checked against the candidate file. 8 rows carry a caution, printed next to the row.

Names link to a candidate page where one exists. 13 of the people named here have no page yet and read as plain text.

The seat beside each name is the one they hold now, not the one they are running for. California, Florida and Texas redrew districts mid-decade, so for eight members those are different numbers and both are shown.

A race rating only appears for somebody on this cycle's ballot. A senator in the middle of a term, a member who is retiring and a member who ran for something else have no 2026 race, so they carry a plain tag instead.