With the mid-term election over there will be many new faces ... both
Republican and Democrats ... taking seats in Congress next year.

Only problem is that those in the leadership positions remain. They
just swap jobs in the Senate. Mitch McConnell is pretty much guarantied
the Senate Majority Leader position with Harry Reid pretty much
guarantied the Minority Leader position.

The House stays as it is most likely ... John Boehner as Speaker and
Nancy Pelosi as minority leader.

If I am not mistaken both houses of Congress must elect them to these
positions, although it is really just a formality.

It might be interesting for them *not* to hold those positions this time
around. Make Congress as clean and new as possible. Their influences
represent the past, not necessarily the future.