Congress

Approval of the Congress is down roughly 5.2 points from where it was a year ago and disapproval is up 6.2 points.

	Approve	Disapprove
Real Clear Pol. 9/26/23	19.7%	73.2%
Real Clear Pol. 8/29/23	24.2%	66.8%
Real Clear Pol. 7/25/23	23.8%	64.5%
Real Clear Pol. 6/27/23	22.8%	68.6%
Real Clear Pol. 5/16/23	27.0%	65.5%
Real Clear Pol. 3/28/23	26.4%	65.2%
Real Clear Pol. 2/14/22	24.4%	65.4%
Real Clear Pol. 12/19/22	27.6%	62.4%
Real Clear Pol. 11/23/22	23.8%	62.8%
Real Clear Pol. 10/13/22	25.3%	65.8%
Real Clear Pol. 8/30/22	20.6%	67.4%
Real Clear Pol. 8/2/22	19.6%	71.0%
Real Clear Pol. 6/15/22	21.2%	69.0%
Real Clear Pol. 5/17/22	22.4%	68.0%
Real Clear Pol. 4/16/22	22.2%	67.5%
Real Clear Pol. 3/15/22	21.8%	67.8%
Real Clear Pol. 2/18/22	20.8%	68.3%
Real Clear Pol. 1/17/22	22.4%	66.4%

The House of Representatives

Washington Watch uses the report by David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report for its report on elections in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Solid Republican	188	Solid Democrat	170
Likely GOP	12	Likely Dem	20
Lean GOP	6	Lean Dem	15
GOP Tossup	14	Dem Tossup	10
Total	220	Total	215

The Senate

Republicans – 49
Democrats – 48
Independents – 3

The 2024 Senate Election

	Democrats	Republicans	Independents
Seats not up in 2024	28	39	0
Seats up in 2024	23	11
Safe in 2024	14	9
	CA-Open	IN-Open
	Murphy	Hawley
	DE-Open	Wicker
	Hirono	Cramer
	Warren	Fischer
	MD-Open	Ricketts
	King (I)	Blackburn
	Klobuchar	Romney
	Heinrich	Barrasso
	Gillibrand	Scott
	Whitehouse
	Kaine
	Sanders (I)
	Cantwell
Likely	1	2
	Menendez	Cruz
		Scott
Lean	5
	MI-Open
	Rosen
	Casey
	Baldwin
	Tester
Toss Up	3
	Sinema (I)
	OH – D
	Manchin