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.

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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.

The city is represented by Senator Joan M. Menard ( D-Fall River ) who serves as the Assistant Majority Leader of the State Senate, in the First Bristol and Plymouth district, which includes the city and the towns of Freetown, Lakeville, Rochester, Somerset and Swansea.

He is currently the Assistant Majority Leader in the Senate and serves as the Chair of the Law and Public Safety Committee, Vice-Chair of the Judiciary Committee, and on the Transportation Committee.

She currently serves as Senate Majority Leader.

When the 104th United States Congress convened in January 1995, House Republicans voted former Minority Whip Newt Gingrich – the chief architect of their victory and author of the Contract with America – Speaker of the House, while the new senatorial Republican majority chose Bob Dole, previously Minority Leader, as Majority Leader.

* Majority on the Ohio Supreme Court ( 1977-1987 ), with a 6-1 majority from 1983-1985, and a Democratic chief justice ( Frank Celebrezze ) from 1978-1986

* Ted Winter, former Minnesota House Majority Leader and longtime state representative ( 1987 – 2003 ) is from Fulda.

He was a state representative, U. S. Representative, 23rd Governor of Arkansas, U. S. Senator, Senate Majority Leader, and candidate for Vice President.

After Republicans won a majority in the state House in the 2010 elections, Stam lost a vote to become the party's nominee for Speaker of the House to representative Tom Tillis, but was elected Majority Leader instead.

In January, 1969, after the NPP's electoral triumph and his own election as a state representative, in spite of being a freshman, he was selected as House Majority Leader for the 1969-1972 term.

From the outset of the 1999 race, it was apparent that there were actually three serious candidates: Fulton ; Vice Mayor Jay West, son of 1950s Nashville mayor Ben West and brother of popular state representative Ben West, Jr .; and former State House Majority Leader and Vanderbilt University employee Bill Purcell.

He also served as the Democratic Majority Floor Leader ; another grandson, David Briley, served as a city council representative in Nashville.

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.

They were also aired in part with her 1994 publication, The Tyranny of the Majority.

Shortly after being elected House Majority Leader in 2002, she was appointed to the United States Senate by her father.

She never served as Majority Leader, due to her appointment to the Senate.

In 1994, when Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell declined to run for re-election, Snowe immediately declared her candidacy for the seat.

Obey went to talk with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer when Waters briefly returned again, telling her colleagues, " He touched me.

In 1959, Berg won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in A Majority of One.

She received the Feminist Majority Foundation's lifetime achievement award for " tireless work for women's rights, for women and girls in sports, for the Equal Rights Amendment for Women, for civil rights for all Americans, for her championing of the trade union movement, and her devotion to world peace and non-violence.

" The early days of Air America Radio are chronicled in the documentary Left of the Dial, which includes a debate between Janeane and her conservative father Carmine, who was initially a regular guest on The Majority Report.

After months of speculation, Garofalo announced on the broadcast of Friday, July 14, 2006 that she would be leaving her co-host position on The Majority Report ; on the Wednesday, July 19 broadcast ( while Seder and Garofalo were interviewing Jason Bateman ), Garofalo cited her reason for leaving the show as precipitated by several " unrecoverable " on-air arguments with Seder ; she also said that she regards Seder as a better radio broadcaster than she, and therefore a better choice to continue The Majority Report.

Although several reasons for her departure were cited ( including her outside acting responsibilities, which made her largely absent from The Majority Report for several weeks prior ), the relationship between Garofalo and co-host Sam Seder had become increasingly strained, owed largely to Garofalo's promotion of a Scientology-linked treatment program for firefighters and rescue workers in New York City.

Garofalo's long stint on the final season of the NBC drama The West Wing ( as Louise Thornton, media strategist for Jimmy Smits ' character, presidential candidate Matt Santos ) did not allow her to be in New York to co-host The Majority Report for several weeks ; this allowed Sam to make the program his own, and she acknowledged that this had a part to play in her decision to leave.

Hirono maneuvered to gain the support of potential Harris voters in her challenge against former State House Majority Leader Ed Case.

Though Whitman has contributed to a few Democrats, including Senator Barbara Boxer ; donating $ 4, 000 to her campaign and serving on the " Friends of Boxer " committee in 2004, she donated more than $ 225, 000. 00 during the same period to Republicans, eBay's PAC and to Americans for a Republican Majority, the PAC of former Rep. Tom DeLay.

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.

Walker has received several awards for her work, including the Women of Distinction Award from the American Association of University Women, " Feminist of the Year " award from the Fund for the Feminist Majority, the " Paz y Justicia " award from the Vanguard Public Foundation, the " Intrepid Award " from the National Organization for Women, the " Champion of Choice " award from the California Abortion Rights Action League and the " Women Who Could Be President Award " from the League of Women Voters.

Public opinion polls placed Maloney's support for the Senate seat in the single digits, trailing the front-runner, then-New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, although her bid was endorsed by the National Organization for Women Political Action Committee, the Feminist Majority Political Action Committee, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, and other columnists and editorial boards.