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Senate and GOP
Years later, Yerger said that Walker's decision to relinquish his House seat after one term for the vagaries of a Senate race against Eastland was " very devastating " to the growth of the Mississippi GOP.
He also reveals that President George W. Bush, then – Secretary of State Colin Powell, and other GOP leaders played a major role in ending his career as Senate Republican Leader.
The Republican Revolution, Revolution of ' 94 or Gingrich Revolution is what the media dubbed the Republican Party ( GOP ) success in the 1994 U. S. midterm elections, which resulted in a net gain of 54 seats in the House of Representatives, and a pickup of eight seats in the Senate.
The Senate shifted to control by the Democrats ( though they technically were the plurality party as they were one short of a majority ) after GOP senator Jim Jeffords changed party registration to " Independent " in June 2001, but later returned to Republican control after the November 2002 elections.
Coleman was a strong supporter of President Bush's attempts in 2006 and 2007 to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the U. S. Senate, one of the few Republicans to do so despite the insistence of many in the GOP that it was " amnesty for illegal aliens ".
The GOP tide also brought to victory five Republican members of the United States House of Representatives, including William Louis Dickinson, who held the Montgomery-based district seat until 1993, and James D. Martin, the Gadsden oil products dealer who had narrowly lost the 1962 Senate race and had his eyes on Wallace's own position as governor.
He previously served in the Illinois State Senate from 1992 to 1998, where he was a member of the ' Fab Five ' group of conservatives who often challenged the leadership of the Illinois GOP.
He is often seen as a front man for the GOP Senate opposition.
Yarborough denounced Bush as an extremist to the right of that year's GOP nominee for president Barry M. Goldwater and as a rich easterner and a carpetbagger trying to buy a Senate seat.
In 1991, when the Idaho Senate was evenly divided between 21 Republicans and 21 Democrats, Otter's tie-breaking votes kept the body under GOP control.
Rumors circulated that Democrats were looking to replace him on the ballot for 2006's Congressional race against Iowa GOP Senate leader Jeff Lamberti, but Boswell's return to work and apparent good health have put an end to the speculation.
However, the Republicans were able to regain control of the Senate during a leadership coup, in which two Democratic Senators voted with the GOP to install a Republican majority leader.
Its success began at the presidential level, gradually trickling down to statewide offices, the Senate, and the House, as some legacy segregationist Democrats retired or switched to the GOP.
D ' Amato was very influential in New York Republican politics, and widely considered the " boss " of the state GOP during his Senate years.
After leaving the Senate, Rudman was twice considered as a possible Vice Presidential candidate on the ticket of two parties other than the GOP.
** As both houses of the Texas Legislature are controlled by the GOP ( 77-73 in the Texas House of Representatives and 19-12 in the Texas Senate ) and both chambers are presided over by a Republican ( Joe Straus as the Speaker of the House and David Dewhurst as Lieutenant Governor, which presides over the Senate ), two additional delegates ( one for having any chamber meeting the criteria, and one additional for having both chambers meet the criteria ).
Irvine Luther Lenroot ( January 31, 1869January 26, 1949 ) was a member of the United States Republican Party ( GOP ) who served in the House of Representatives from 1909 to 1918, and in the United States Senate from 1918 to 1927, for the state of Wisconsin.
Former U. S. Senators Barry M. Goldwater, the 1964 Republican presidential nominee and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina campaigned on behalf of Martin and GOP Senate nominee John Grenier of Birmingham.
* Emil Lockwood, GOP Majority Leader in the Michigan Senate, and co-founder of Public Affairs Associates of Michigan.
Oberweis is running for the 25th State Senate seat currently held by Chris Lauzen, his former GOP primary rival in the 2008 congressional race.
Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and President Pro Tempore of the Senate, was a leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination before dropping out of the contest.
He was elected to the Senate in 1976 as a Democrat, having defeated Republican Party ( GOP ) U. S. Representative Sam Steiger for the open seat left by retiring GOP Senator Paul Fannin.

Senate and leader
Customary Senate rules were ignored in order to speed approval of the Negro leader as administrator of the housing and home finance agency.
Antony was inevitably perceived by Octavian and the majority of the Roman Senate as the leader of a separatist movement that threatened to break the unity of the Roman Republic.
The princeps senatus served as the leader of the Senate and was chosen to serve a five year term by each pair of Censors every five years.
The new Senate was formed in March 1917 by Social Democrat and trade union leader Oskari Tokoi.
Holt's disappearance at the end of 1967 forced the party to choose a " wild card " successor from the Senate after the leading contender, deputy Liberal leader William McMahon, was unexpectedly eliminated from the contest due to a dispute with their Coalition partners, the Country Party.
He soon joined the " Democratic-Republican " faction led by Jefferson and Madison, and by 1791 was the party leader in the Senate.
He was the Democratic party leader in the United States Senate, the chairman of the Committee on Territories, an avid promoter of railroads, an aspirant to the presidency, and, above all, a fervent believer in popular sovereignty: the policy of letting the residents of a territory decide whether or not they would permit slavery to exist.
In September 2008, Barnaby Joyce replaced CLP Senator and Nationals deputy leader Nigel Scullion as leader of the Nationals in the Senate, and stated that his party in the upper house would no longer necessarily vote with their Liberal counterparts in the upper house, which opened up another possible avenue for the Rudd Labor Government to get legislation through.
Despite Labor holding a majority in the House of Representatives, Kerr appointed the Leader of the Opposition, Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister, conditional on the passage of the Whitlam government's Supply bills through the Senate and the calling of an election for both houses of parliament.
Two former prime ministers — Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell — served in the 1890s while members of the Senate ; both, in their roles as Government Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( John A. Macdonald in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894 ), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an interim leader in such a scenario.
In theory, the people of Rome elected their leader, but the Senate had most of the control over the process.
The amendment proposal finally accepted was Senate Joint Resolution No. 40, introduced by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, the Senate majority leader and Finance Committee Chairman.
Ahead of the 1996 primary contest, Senate majority leader and former vice-presidential nominee Bob Dole was seen as the most likely winner.
Since James G. Blaine moved from the House to the United States Senate, Garfield became the minority Republican floor leader of the House.
During the twelve years he served in the Senate, he became the leader of the Democrats in that body.
A move was made to abolish traditional political parties and to alter the existing mode of national representation in parliament ( which, it was claimed, exacerbated divisions within the Pátria ) through the creation of a corporative Senate, the founding of a single-party ( the National Republican Party ), and the attribution of a mobilising function to the leader.
Per, an implementing bill for a Fast track negotiating authority ( Trade Promotion Authority ) trade agreement submitted by the President is introduced ( by request ) in the House by the majority leader of the House and ( by request ) in the Senate by the majority leader of the Senate.
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.

Senate and Trent
Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.
* October 9 – Trent Lott, former United States Senate Minority Leader and United States Senate Majority Leader
Chester Trent Lott, Sr. ( born October 9, 1941 ), is a former United States Senator from Mississippi, who served in numerous leadership positions in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate.
" Racial Threat, Republicanism, and the Rebel Flag: Trent Lott and the 2006 Mississippi Senate Race ", National Political Science Review July 2009, Vol.
On January 4, 2008, Musgrove confirmed that he would be a candidate in the United States Senate special election in Mississippi in 2008 against Republican candidate Roger Wicker, who was appointed to the position by Governor Haley Barbour when Trent Lott resigned.
That year, Cochran and Trent Lott ( who later served alongside him in the U. S. Senate ) became the second and third Republicans to represent Mississippi in the House of Representatives since Reconstruction.
The canonical example of emergent democracy was the December 2002 resignation of Trent Lott as Senate majority leader after bloggers publicized his praising of Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist campaign for the presidency.
At a press conference on December 31, 2007, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour appointed Wicker to fill the Senate seat vacated by Trent Lott on December 18, 2007.
For instance, U. S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott had also been a member of the CofCC.
Similarly, in 2002 Senate majority leader Trent Lott had to resign due to his inappropriate racist remarks that were widely discussed in the blogosphere.
McSlarrow also served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief Counsel for Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Trent Lott between 1995 and 1997.
In 1993 U. S. Senator Trent Lott supported the bill " True Parents Day " in the U. S. Senate and in 1995 U. S. President Bill Clinton signed a bill into law called " Parents Day "; children are to honor their parents on this day.
After one term, he ran as the Democratic candidate to succeed Republican incumbent Trent Lott in Mississippi's 5th District when Lott made a successful run for the Senate.
In December 2002, at a birthday party celebrating Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday, Republican Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott said, “ When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him.
Trent Lott posing next to the Senate seal
In 1995, he lost the whip's job to Trent Lott of Mississippi, and he did not seek reelection to the Senate in 1996.
Recent Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist was an NRSC chair, and many feel he used it to make the connections that he used to become majority leader when Trent Lott resigned.
As a result of these ten filibusters, Senate Republicans began to threaten to change the existing Senate rules by using what Senator Trent Lott termed the " nuclear option ".
Prior to joining the White House staff, Hennessey worked for Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott from February 1997 to August 2002.
Notable freshmen included future Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott ( R-Miss.
Trent Lott, who was Senate Majority Leader at the time, fired the Senate parliamentarian in 2001 because of unfavorable rulings regarding the use of reconciliation to pass the Bush tax cuts.

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