 Republicans won a net gain of two seats in the Senate, gaining control of a chamber they had lost in 2001 after Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party.Republicans picked up eight seats in the House of Representatives, marking the fourth time since the American Civil War that the president's party picked up seats in the House (the others being 1902, 1934, and 1998) during a mid-term election.The elections remain the most recent mid-term in which the president's party did not lose control of at least one house of Congress.