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.

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.

** 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.

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.

* 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.

" Lott was ousted as Senate Majority Leader.

The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders are two United States Senators who are elected by the party conferences that hold the majority and the minority respectively.

By rule, the Presiding Officer gives the Majority Leader priority in obtaining recognition to speak on the floor of the Senate.

The Majority Leader customarily serves as the chief representative of his or her party in Senate, and sometimes even in all of Congress if the House of Representatives and thus the office of Speaker of the House is controlled by the opposition party.

Senate Republican Leader Dirksen ( Ill. ) and House Republican Leader Charles Halleck ( Ind. ) said the message did not persuade them to change their opposition to compulsory medical insurance.

In October the government became embroiled in another embarrassing controversy over the alleged misuse of VIP aircraft, which came to a head when John Gorton ( Government Leader in the Senate ) tabled documents which showed that Holt had unintentionally misled Parliament in his earlier answers on the matter.

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.

On November 7, 1983, a group called the Armed Resistance Unit claimed responsibility for a bomb that detonated in the lobby outside the office of Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd.

Willkie left the selection of the candidate for Vice President to convention chairman Joseph W. Martin, Jr., who suggested Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon.

-- Acting hastily under White House pressure, the Senate tonight confirmed Robert C. Weaver as the nation's federal housing chief.

Rejections are relatively uncommon ; the Senate has explicitly rejected twelve Supreme Court nominees, most recently Robert Bork in 1987.

The compromise, based on the Aldrich Plan but sponsored by Democratic Congressmen Carter Glass and Robert Owen, allowed the private banks to control the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks, but appeased the agrarians by placing controlling interest in the System in a central board appointed by the president with Senate approval.

* November 20 – Robert Byrd, U. S. senator from West Virginia and President pro tempore of the United States Senate ( d. 2010 )

** The United States Senate confirms Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence.

** On a vote of 58 – 42, the United States Senate rejects President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

Thurmond became President pro tempore of the US Senate in 1981, and held the largely ceremonial post for three terms, alternating with his longtime rival Robert Byrd depending on the party composition of the Senate.

** Set the then-record for longest cumulative tenure in the Senate at 43 years ( 1997 ), increasing to 47 years, 6 months at his retirement in January 2003, surpassed by Robert Byrd in July 2006

Only Thurmond, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Daniel Inouye, Carl Hayden, John Stennis and Ted Stevens served longer in the Senate than Hollings.

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Clay as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators, along with Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

This was revealed by a declassified interview with then-US National Security Council minutekeeper Robert Johnson released in August 2000 from Senate intelligence committee's inquiry on covert action.

Robert Byrd ( D-List of United States Senators from West Virginia | West Virginia ) served as president pro tempore during Democratic Senate majorities from 1989 to 2010, and as president pro tempore emeritus from 2003 to 2007

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Webster as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators with Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Calhoun as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

He served in various positions under Robert Menzies and Harold Holt, including Minister for the Navy from 1958 – 63, Minister for Works, Minister for the Interior and Minister for Education as well as Leader of the Government in the Senate.

The late President's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, with whom Johnson had a notoriously difficult relationship, remained in office for a few months until leaving in 1964, to run for the Senate.

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