<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution" id="mwAVg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Republican Revolution">Republican Revolution</a>: On the night of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_United_States_elections" id="mwAVk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1994 United States elections">1994 United States midterm elections</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" id="mwAVo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republicans</a> make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" id="mwAVs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Congress">Congress</a> (54 seats in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" id="mwAVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States House of Representatives">House</a> and eight seats in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" id="mwAV0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Senate">Senate</a>, additionally), thus bringing to a close four decades of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" id="mwAV4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> domination.