*Party division totals are based on election day results.
Republicans retained control of Congress after the 1906 elections. The 60th Congress (1907–1909) produced the Aldrich-Vreeland Emergency Currency Act, which armed the federal government with the tools to support the nation’s banks during financial panics and established a National Monetary Commission to review the banking and currency system. Congress also attacked the opium trade and revised the criminal code.
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1Resigned from post, 1908.
2Caucus records are contradictory for this period. They show the election of Representative James Hay as chairman on January 19, 1911, but do not mention a resignation by incumbent chairman Clayton, nor do they specify that Hay was elected chairman for the new Congress. Later, they show the election of Representative Burleson on April 11, 1911.