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.

" 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.

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.

Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody — such as the Emmy-winning " Moral Majority " episode where advertisers and special interest groups forced significant changes to SCTV's programming ; " Zontar ", a parody of the Larry Buchanan film Zontar, The Thing from Venus which featured an alien race seeking to kidnap SCTV's on-air talent for " a nine-show cycle plus three best-ofs " ( which was the actual deal NBC worked out with SCTV that season ); and an ambitious parody of The Godfather featuring an all-out network war over pay television between SCTV, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS-the last featured mafia-style hits on the sets of The Today Show, Three's Company, and The NFL Today as well as an extended sequence with guest star John Marley as an off-beat Leonard Bernstein, spoofing his Godfather role of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz.

* Majority leader: John W. McCormack

* John H. Rogers, former Massachusetts House Majority Leader

Since its inception, the Center has gathered a group of high-profile senior fellows, including Lawrence Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan ; Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama ; Ruy Teixeira, political scientist and author of The Emerging Democratic Majority ; and, most recently, former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and Elizabeth Edwards, late wife of former Presidential candidate and former U. S. Sen. from North Carolina John Edwards.

On January 13, 2006 Shadegg officially joined the race for the House Majority Leader as a compromise alternative candidate to Representatives Roy Blunt and John Boehner.

Simpson has been credited as having a key role in the election of John Boehner ( R-OH ) to the position of House Majority Leader in the 109th United States Congress.

FEC records show that the John S. Fund, the PAC for John Shimkus, contributed to former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in 2005.

* John F. Hayes ( attorney ) ( 1919 – 2010 ), Kansas attorney and former Majority Leader of the Kansas House of Representatives

File: George John Mitchell. jpg | Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine

His opponent was James E. Tierney, former Majority Leader of the Maine House and state Attorney General – though he did also face two independent candidates, Sherry Huber and John Menario.

Soon after, she voted for Hale Boggs as House Majority Leader over John Conyers.

Later Jones criticized other fundamentalists who were insufficiently separatistic, such as evangelist John R. Rice and Jerry Falwell, whose Moral Majority had embraced Catholics and Mormons.

In 1980 the defeats of Chairman Al Ullman and Majority Whip John Brademas presented Rostenkowski, the highest ranking member of Ways and Means, with a choice: he could chair that committee or succeed Brademas as Majority Whip.

Walden has been chosen by Speaker John Boehner to be chairman of the House Majority Transition Committee.

After House Majority Leader Tom DeLay stepped down upon criminal indictment in Texas, Blunt served as interim House Majority Leader from September 29, 2005, to February 2, 2006, when John Boehner of Ohio was elected as DeLay's permanent replacement.

In their book Game Change ( 2010 ), Time Magazine's Mark Halperin and New York magazine's John Heilemann reported on a private conversation by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

On August 7, 2006, state senator Joy Padgett announced that Ney was withdrawing his candidacy in the 2006 election, and that Ney and House Majority Leader John Boehner had asked her to run in his place.

The Washington Post compared Mansfield's behavior as Majority Leader to Johnson's by saying, " Instead of Johnson's browbeating tactics, Mansfield led by setting an example of humility and accommodation.

Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, KCMG, OM, PC, JP ( 22 March 193026 August 2000 ), is regarded as the " Father of the Nation " of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 July 1973.

Due to Flesh being angered, his retaliation led him towards the idea of an album titled " Majority Rules " but Bizzy Bone dismissed this claiming it was just Flesh-n-Bone's anger towards Krayzie leaving.

Dileita led the ruling coalition, the Union for the Presidential Majority ( UMP ), in the January 2003 parliamentary election, standing as the first candidate on the coalition's list for the District of Djibouti.

Provisions of the legislation were challenged as unconstitutional by a group of plaintiffs led by then – Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, a long-time opponent of the bill.

The SPD, also called " MSPD " ( Majority Social Democrats ), was led by Friedrich Ebert.

In this, after the campaign, he found and led the Popular Party for French Democracy ( PPDF ), a component of the UDF, and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs until the defeat of the Presidential Majority in the 1997 legislative election.

Bass was among the first and most vocal congressmen to demand that Tom DeLay step aside as House Majority Leader in 2005 and led the petition that resulted in DeLay's removal from House leadership.

Due to his strong fundraising ability for fellow Democrats, and the fact that he led the 1991 redistricting in Texas, he was one of the targets of a controversial mid-decade redistricting engineered by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

Majority of the candidates under PMP were elected in office, led by Dr. Luisa Ejercito Estrada who won a seat in the Senate.

He was invited to join the congressional delegation to the People's Republic of China in 1972, which was led by House Majority Leader Hale Boggs from Louisiana, and House Minority Leader and future U. S. President Gerald Ford.

She also did summer stock, which led to roles on Broadway, and in 1959, she won the " Theatre World Award " for her performance in the Broadway comedy, A Majority of One, starring Gertrude Berg and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

Sir Lynden is recognised as the Father of the Nation, having led the Bahamas to Majority Rule in 1967 as well as Independence from the United Kingdom in 1973.

In 1984 McClure ran for Senate Majority Leader, but was defeated by Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, who three years earlier had led the intraparty opposition to the Helms-McClure position on reinstating the purchase requirement for food stamps.

There are 47 Democratic council members led by Majority Leader Joel Rivera.

* In May 2005, colleagues of then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay sang " If I Had a Hammer " at a dinner held in support of him during the investigation that eventually led to his indictment on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to violate election law.

The program is led by Dr. Jan Knippers Black in collaboration with Judge Juan Guzman Tapia, best known as Chile ’ s prosecutor of General Pinochet, and international NGO Global Majority.