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Events on Tuesday 7 November 2006 1
2006US midterm elections shift Congress to DemocratsDemocrats retake House and SenateDemocrats won majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, ending twelve years of Republican control of Congress. The result was widely read as a rebuke of the Iraq War and the Bush administration. Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the House as a result.