Question: When did the party who holds the majority in the House of Representatives, take control of the political body that the President calls on for support in his USAF appointments?

the constitution designates the vice president of the united states as president of the united states senate. the constitution also calls for a president pro tempore to serve as the leader of the body when the president of the senate (the vice president) is absent. in practice, neither the vice president nor the president pro tempore -- customarily the most senior (longest - serving) senator in the majority party -- actually presides over the senate on a daily basis; that task is given to junior senators of the majority party. since the vice president may be of a different party than the majority and is not a member subject to discipline, the rules of procedure of the senate give the presiding officer very little power and none beyond the presiding role. for these reasons, it is the majority leader who, in practice, manages the senate. this is in contrast to the house of representatives where the elected speaker of the house has a great deal of discretionary power and generally presides over votes on bills. <SEP> The senior officials in the Office of the Secretary are the Under Secretary of the Air Force, four Assistant Secretaries of the Air Force and the General Counsel, all of whom are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Department of the Air Force is one of three military departments within the Department of Defense, and is managed by the civilian Secretary of the Air Force, under the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense. The senior uniformed leadership in the Air Staff is made up of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force and the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force. <SEP> They had needed a net gain of at least six seats to obtain a majority. The Republicans regained the majority of the Senate in the 114th Congress, which started in January 2015; the Republicans had not controlled the Senate since January 2007. They held all of their seats, and gained nine Democratic - held seats. Republicans defeated five Democratic incumbents: <SEP> The 2014 elections gave the Republicans control of the Senate (and control of both houses of Congress) for the first time since the 109th Congress. The One Hundred Fourteenth 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, 2015, to January 3, 2017, during the final two full years of Barack Obama's presidency. With 248 seats in the House of Representatives and 54 seats in the Senate, this Congress began with the largest Republican majority since the 71st Congress of 1929 -- 1931. <SEP> starting with republican nicholas longworth in 1925, and continued through the democrats' control of the house from 1931 to 1995, save for republican majorities in 1947–49 and 1953–55, all majority leaders have directly ascended to the speakership brought upon by the retirement of the incumbent. the only exceptions during this period were charles a. halleck who became republican house leader and minority leader from 1959 to 1965, hale boggs who died in a plane crash, and dick gephardt who became the democrats' house leader but as minority leader since his party lost control in the 1994 midterm elections. since 1995, the only majority leader to become speaker is john boehner, though indirectly as his party lost control in the 2006 midterms elections. he subsequently served as republican house leader and minority leader from 2007 to 2011 and then was elected speaker when the house reconvened in 2011. in 1998, with speaker newt gingrich announcing his resignation, both majority leader dick armey and majority whip tom delay did not contest the speakership which eventually went to chief deputy whip dennis hastert.