He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas.

* 1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.

The Floor Leaders are referred to as the Senate Majority Leader, who belongs to the party with the most Senators, and the Senate Minority Leader, who belongs to the other major party.

Around this time Major – who in an unfortunate phrase denounced the Labour Leader John Smith as " Monsieur Oui, the poodle of Brussels " – tried to demand an increase in the Qualified Majority needed for voting in the newly-enlarged European Union ( i. e. making it easier for Britain, in alliance with other countries, to block federalist measures ).

He was elected Senate Majority Leader in 1984 and served there until elected governor in 1990.

Posthumus later went on to be elected State Senator, Senate Majority Leader and Lieutenant Governor.

Senate Majority Leader Dole and Gingrich appointed Kemp to head a tax reform commission, ( the Kemp Commission ), in response to voter concern that the tax code had become too complicated.

In 2009, the term was applied by many commentators to former Senate Majority Leader and then-Obama cabinet appointee Tom Daschle for failing to pay back taxes and interest on the use of a limousine service.

Majority Leader John Randolph led the opposition.

" U. S. legislators, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, also condemned both the burning and the violence in reaction to it.

Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey condemned Lee as having " nothing to offer the debate on school violence except more violence and more hate.

** Harry Reid, American politician and U. S. Senate Majority Leader

* October 9 – Trent Lott, former United States Senate Minority Leader and United States Senate Majority Leader

* December 2 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U. S. President John F. Kennedy, U. S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a non-optimistic public comment on the war's progress.

* Charles Curtis, U. S. Senate Majority Leader from Kansas

Image: Charles Curtis-portrait. jpg | Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis from Kansas

The leading candidates were Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, former Illinois Governor Frank Orren Lowden and Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis.

* Lyndon B. Johnson, U. S. Senate Majority Leader from Texas.

Image: 37 Lyndon Johnson 3x4. jpg | Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas

In the week before the convention opened, Kennedy received two new challengers when Lyndon B. Johnson, the powerful Senate Majority Leader from Texas, and Adlai Stevenson, the party's nominee in 1952 and 1956, officially announced their candidacies ( they had both privately been working for the nomination for some time ).

His acceptance by the Southerners was also helped a great deal when Humphrey became a protege of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas.

Humphrey ran for Majority Leader after the 1976 election but lost to Robert Byrd of West Virginia.

" Lott was ousted as Senate Majority Leader.

Marxism – Leninism descends from the Bolshevik (" Majority ") faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( RSDLP ) that was founded in the RSDLP's Second Congress in 1903.

The law was challenged as unconstitutional by groups and individuals including the California State Democratic Party, the National Rifle Association, and Republican Senator Mitch McConnell ( Kentucky ), the Senate Majority Whip.

Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip.

The incumbent floor leaders are Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

While the title was not official, he is considered to be the first Senate Majority leader ( and in turn, the first Senate Democratic Leader ), while serving concurrently as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus.

* Alliance of the Presidential Majority ( French: Alliance pour la majorité présidentielle ), political platform in the Democratic Republic of Congo

He initially attempted to transfer the authority of Senate Majority Leader to the Vice Presidency, since that office made him President of the Senate, but faced vehement opposition from the Democratic Caucus, including members he'd counted as his supporters.

In 1961, after Johnson resigned from the Senate to become Vice President, Mansfield was unanimously elected the Democratic floor leader and thus Senate Majority Leader.

Carter did not share the Moral Majority ’ s political imperative to unify personal and political positions and would instead support the positions of his own party, the Democratic Party, that were at odds with his personal religious stances.

* Joseph Taylor Robinson-U. S. Senate Majority leader and Al Smith's running mate on the Democratic Ticket in the 1928 U. S. presidential election.

* H. Truman Chafin, Democratic State Senator ( Majority Leader ), attorney

Following the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections, Democratic Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a longtime opponent of the repository, became the Senate Majority Leader, putting him in a position to greatly affect the future of the project.

Pelosi supported her longtime friend John Murtha of Pennsylvania for the position of House Majority Leader, the second-ranking post in the House Democratic caucus.

In that campaign, candidate Clinton forswore many older Democratic policies in favor of centrist Third Way policies that were championed by the Democratic Leadership Council in hopes of reconnecting with many working class voters who had begun to vote Republican in presidential campaign since 1968 — the Silent Majority of Nixon and the Reagan Democrats.

** Gang of Four in New York Senate, Democratic senators supporting attempted change of Majority Leader in 2009 leadership crisis

* January 10: In elections in Djibouti, the Union for a Presidential Majority wins 62. 2 % of the vote against 36. 9 % for the Union for a Democratic Alternative.

* Bessette, Joseph ( 1980 ) " Deliberative Democracy: The Majority Principle in Republican Government ," in How Democratic is the Constitution ?, Washington, D. C., AEI Press.

* Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a conservative group of Democrats in the 70s and 80s

* Gloria Romero, ( D-CA ), a California Democratic Majority leader and educational reformer

Democratic senators named him the party Assistant Majority Leader ( whip ) in 1965.

Democratic Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley obtained an order on a Saturday session on November 14, 1942 directing Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney to round up the five Southern absentees to obtain a quorum.

As Majority Leader, Albert was a key figure in advancing the Democratic legislative agenda in the House, particularly with health care legislation.