113th Congress

113th United States Congress
112th ← → 114th
U.S. Capitol building at dusk as seen from the eastern side (Nov. 2014)
January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015
Senate President	Joe Biden (D)
Senate Pres. pro tem	Patrick Leahy (D)
House Speaker	John Boehner (R)
Members	100 Senators 435 Representatives 6 Non-voting members
Senate Majority	Democratic
House Majority	Republican
Sessions
1st: January 3, 2013 – December 26, 2013 2nd: January 3, 2014 – December 16, 2014

The One Hundred Thirteenth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, from January 3, 2013, to January 3, 2015. It was composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives based on the results of the 2012 Senate elections and the 2012 House elections. The seats in the House were apportioned based on the 2010 United States Census. It first met in Washington, D.C. on January 3, 2013, and it ended on January 3, 2015. Senators elected to regular terms in 2008 were in the last two years of those terms during this Congress.

Widespread public dissatisfaction with the institution increased over its second year, and some commentators have ranked it among the worst in United States congressional history. According to a Gallup Poll released in August 2014, the 113th Congress had the highest disapproval rating of any Congress since 1974, when data first started being collected: 83% of Americans surveyed said that they disapproved of the job Congress was doing, while only 13% said that they approved. In October 2013, during the government shutdown, this decreased to 10% approval according to several polls.

Fiscal year 2014 runs from October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014.

Fiscal year 2015 runs from October 1, 2014 to September 20, 2015.

[ Section contents: Senate: Majority (D), Minority (R) • House: Majority (R), Minority (D) ]

Senators are listed by state, and the numbers refer to their Senate classes, In this Congress, Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 2014; Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 2016; and Class 1 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring re-election in 2018.