Question: When did the political party Alaska generally supports take control of the determiner of rules of the US House and US Senate?

<P0-S0> the constitution designates the vice president of the united states as president of the united states senate. <P0-S1> 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. <P0-S2> 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. <P0-S3> 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. <P0-S4> for these reasons, it is the majority leader who, in practice, manages the senate. <P0-S5> 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> <P1-S0> Alaska regularly supports Republicans in presidential elections and has done so since statehood. <P1-S1> Republicans have won the state's electoral college votes in all but one election that it has participated in (1964). <P1-S2> No state has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate fewer times. <P1-S3> Alaska was carried by Democratic nominee Lyndon B. Johnson during his landslide election in 1964, while the 1960 and 1968 elections were close. <P1-S4> Since 1972, however, Republicans have carried the state by large margins. <P1-S5> In 2008, Republican John McCain defeated Democrat Barack Obama in Alaska, 59.49% to 37.83%. <P1-S6> McCain's running mate was Sarah Palin, the state's governor and the first Alaskan on a major party ticket. <P1-S7> Obama lost Alaska again in 2012, but he captured 40% of the state's vote in that election, making him the first Democrat to do so since 1968. <SEP> <P2-S0> 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. <P2-S1> They had needed a net gain of at least six seats to obtain a majority. <P2-S2> They held all of their seats, and gained nine Democratic - held seats. <P2-S3> Republicans defeated five Democratic incumbents: <SEP> <P3-S0> The Standing Rules of the Senate are the parliamentary procedures adopted by the United States Senate that govern its procedure. <P3-S1> The Senate's power to establish rules derives from Article One, Section 5 of the United States Constitution: ``Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings... '' <SEP> <P4-S0> the connecticut state senate is the upper house of the connecticut general assembly, the state legislature of the us state of connecticut. <P4-S1> the state senate comprises 36 members, each representing a district with around 99,280 inhabitants. <P4-S2> senators are elected to two-year terms without term limits. <P4-S3> the connecticut state senate is one of 14 state legislative upper houses whose members serve two-year terms; four-year terms are more common.