majority leader

Examples of majority leader in the following topics:

• Party Leadership in the House

  • The current House Majority Leader is Republican Kevin McCarthy, while the current House Minority Leader is Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
  • The Speaker in the United States, by tradition, is the head of the majority party in the House of Representatives, outranking the Majority Leader.
  • The Minority Leader of the House serves as floor leader of the opposition party and is the counterpart to the Majority Leader.
  • Unlike the Majority Leader, the Minority Leader is on the ballot for Speaker of the House when Congress convenes.
  • The Minority Leader usually meets with the Majority Leader and the Speaker to discuss agreements on controversial issues.

• Party Leadership in the Senate

  • Each party is led by a floor leader who directs the legislative agenda of his caucus in the Senate, and who is augmented by an Assistant Leader or Whip, and several other officials who work together to manage the floor schedule of legislation, enforce party discipline, oversee efforts to elect new Senators, and maintain party unity.
  • The titular, non-partisan leaders of the Senate itself are the Vice President of the United States, who serves as President of the Senate, and the President pro tempore, the most senior member of the majority who theoretically presides in the absence of the Vice President.
  • Since January 3, 2007, the Democratic Party has constituted a majority in the Senate.
  • The Senate Majority Leader is Harry Reid (Nevada) and serves as leader of the Senate Democratic Conference and manages the legislative business of the Senate.
  • Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) is the Senate Minority Leader and Jon Kyl (Arizona) is the Senate Minority Whip.

• The Staff System

  • The various types of congressional staff are as follows: personal staff, who work for individual members of Congress; committee staff, who serve either the majority or minority on congressional committees; leadership staff, who work for the speaker, majority and minority leaders, and the majority and minority whips; institutional staff, who include the majority and minority party floor staff and non-partisan staff; and the support agency staff, who are the non-partisan employees of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and Government Accountability Office (GAO).
  • Majority and minority members hire their own staff, with the exception of two committees in each house: the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the House, and the Select Committee on Ethics and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the Senate.

• Hosting Conventions

  • The major political parties in the U.S. host the Democratic and Republican National Conventions to select candidates and rally supporters.
  • Due to the national media presence surrounding presidential nominating conventions, they are also excellent tools to showcase a given party's leaders and policies to prospective voters.
  • The two major political parties in the U.S. host the quadrennial Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention to determine their respective presidential and vice presidential candidates.

• Congressional Campaign Committees

  • Emanuel led the Democratic Party's effort to capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2006 elections.
  • For the 2012 election cycle, Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed congressman Steve Israel to serve as the committee's chair.
  • It is a registered 527 group, and its current slogan is "Building a Lasting Majority."
  • Republican Leader John Boehner and the seven other elected leaders of the Republican Conference of the House of Representatives serve as ex-officio members of the NRCC's executive committee.
  • Identify the roles and responsibilities of the Congressional Campaign Committees for both major parties

• Political Leaders and Opinion Makers

  • Typically the opinion leader is held in high esteem by those who accept his or her opinions.
  • In the jargon of public relations, they are called thought leaders.
  • Opinion leaders, such as Stephen Colbert, often shape public opinion.
  • People are inclined to follow opinion leaders because of their knowledge and experience.
  • George Clooney is an example of a celebrity opinion leader.

• Uniting Competing Factions Within the Party

  • The two major Democratic and Republican Parties in the United States have historically been ideologically ambiguous in order to accommodate citizens representing a broad spectrum of interests.
  • Some have even contended that American parties have become more ideologically distinct in the last three decades as party leaders begin to express polarized opinions on national issues.
  • Parties unite these disparate viewpoints by developing party platforms that outline party positions on issues and the actions leaders will take to implement them if elected.
  • These votes present a majority view on how issues should be handled and how they can be used by the presidential candidate to unite divergent viewpoints under one popular view.

• Political Party Leader

  • The president can take an indirect role in shaping legislation, especially if the president's political party has a majority in one or both houses of Congress.
  • However, the president can take an indirect role in shaping legislation, especially if the president's political party has a majority in one or both houses of Congress.
  • The modern presidential campaign begins before the primary elections, which the two major political parties use to clear the field of candidates before their national nominating conventions, where the most successful candidate is made the party's nominee for president.

• Political Parties

  • They also control committee appointments, and since the 1990s there has been a stronger control by congressional party leaders on individual members including higher rates of party voting.
  • Majority party members will have many positive powers to pass legislation to support their own ideology and constituencies.
  • To deal with a situation in which no clear majorities appear through general elections, parties either form coalition cabinets, supported by a parliamentary majority, or minority cabinets which may consist of one or more parties.
  • Majority governments based on a single party are typically even more stable, as long as their majority can be maintained.
  • Nancy Pelosi is the leader of the House Democrats and the first women to be Speaker of the House.

• Political Knowledge

  • Political knowledge, in addition to political socialization and major events, impact the formation of people's political values and opinions.
  • While it is known that agents of political socialization (such as family, peers, church, and school) and major life and political events impact political values and public opinion, some argue that political knowledge plays a large role as well.
  • How much people know about their government and their leaders, where they receive their information, the quality and impartiality of the sources they used, all impact the formation of their political values and opinions .