Currently, there are 12 members of the Republican-led Majority Caucus and 3 members of the Democrat-led Minority Caucus.

( Majority Caucus in bold ; Minority Caucus in ital.

Despite the electoral setback suffered by her party, Pelosi sought to continue leading the House Democratic Caucus in the position of Minority Leader, the office she held prior to becoming Speaker.

Pelosi was a founding member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but left in 2003 after being elected Minority Leader.

His leadership position was contested by the centrist Martin Frost, the outgoing Democratic Caucus Chair, and the liberal Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Whip, who was elected as Gephardt's successor.

Under the House Rules the Chairman and members of standing committees are selected through a two-step procedure where the Democratic Caucus and the Republican Conference recommends members to serve on Committees, the majority party recommends a Chairman, and the Minority Party recommends a Ranking Member and finally the full House approves the recommendation of the Party Caucuses.

* Nancy Pelosi ( CA-8 )-Left Caucus when Elected House Minority Leader

* Minority Caucus Chair: Fred Clark

Due to term limits as Democratic Caucus Chair, Frost made a bid for Minority Leader after Dick Gephardt resigned in the wake of losing four seats in the 2002 Congressional midterm elections, but Frost dropped out of the race and supported eventual winner Nancy Pelosi.

The Chairperson of the DCCC is the fourth ranking position among House Democrats, after the Minority Leader, the Minority Whip and the Democratic Caucus Chairperson.

He was a member, and former chair, of the Congressional Black Caucus and was chosen in 2002 by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to serve on the Democratic Steering Committee.

He was the Assistant Minority Leader for the Senate Democratic Caucus during his seven years in the General Assembly.

The Republican Caucus elected Bob Miller as Minority Leader, and Wanda Fuller as Assistant Majority Leader.

* Minority Caucus Chair: Ralph Johnson of Louisiana

After the 2008 elections, McCarthy was chosen as Chief Deputy Minority Whip, the highest-ranking appointed position in the House Republican Caucus.

The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages ( ECRML ) is a European treaty ( CETS 148 ) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect and promote historical regional and minority languages in Europe.

Furthermore, Greek is officially recognized as a minority language in parts of Italy and Albania, as well as in Armenia, Romania and Ukraine as a regional or minority language in the framework of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

In 1970, then-House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford defined the criterion as he saw it: " An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

According to the UN Forum on Minority Issues, " The creation and development of classes and schools providing education in minority languages should not be considered impermissible segregation, if the assignment to such classes and schools is of a voluntary nature ".

Nancy Pelosi is the most recent example of an outgoing Speaker who was elected Minority Leader, after the Democrats lost control of the House in the 2010 elections.

He is currently the House Minority Whip.

* Advancing Racial Justice and Minority Rights: goal is to " secure equal rights and greater opportunity for racial and ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples ".

Harrow is a diverse borough, having 63. 8 % of its population from the BME ( Black and Minority Ethnic ) communities, with the largest group being of Indian ethnicity.

She became a member of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Women ’ s Participation, has a seat on the board of governors of the Chair on the Management of Diversity and Integration at the Free University of Amsterdam, she ( along with her husband ) is a patron of the Orange Fund ( established to promote social welfare and cohesion in the Netherlands ), and she also chairs the Board of Trustees of the Prince Claus Chair of the University of Utrecht.

The same area is represented in the IL Senate ’ s District 41 by Illinois Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno who is from Lemont.

The area is represented by Republican Geoff Davis in the United States House of Representatives and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and fellow Republican Rand Paul in the United States Senate.

" The Minority Report " is a 1956 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in Fantastic Universe.

(; born March 26, 1940 ) is the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011.

BJP also maintains the BJP Mahila Morcha, which is its women's front, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, its youth wing, the BJP Minority Morcha, wits Minority front and many other frontal organisations, including BJP Legal & Legislative Cell.

Rusyn is listed as a protected language by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia and Romania.

During the 2004 Senate race in South Dakota, Republican challenger John Thune made Ellsworth a campaign issue, stating in an April 16, 2004 appearance at the base that if he were elected over incumbent Democrat and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle: “ It puts Ellsworth in a lot stronger position than having someone who's going to be in the minority and someone who doesn't have a relationship with the President of the U. S .” In a debate between the two men broadcast on KSFY-TV and KOTA-TV television on October 17, 2004, Thune said: " I think we have got to have somebody that has a relationship with the President of the United States, can work constructively across party lines in the Congress to get this done if we're going save Ellsworth " and was later quoted in the " Rapid City Journal " newspaper on October 27, 2004 claiming that: " an all-Democratic congressional delegation would have little political influence if President Bush is elected to a second term .”

She is married to U. S. Sen. Mitch McConnell ( R-Kentucky ), the current U. S. Senate Minority Leader.

Within the terms of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages the British Government is obliged, among other things, to:

Sununu was appointed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to serve on the Congressional Oversight Panel ( COP ) for the Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, whose purpose is to assess how the TARP program is working, in order to help Congress determine whether to continue injecting capital into the financial sector.

" Future noir films often intermingle elements of the gothic thriller genre, such as Minority Report, which makes references to occult practices, and Alien, with its tagline ‘ In space, no one can hear you scream ’, and a space vessel, Nostromo, “ that hark back to images of the haunted house in the gothic horror tradition .” Bin Aziz states that films such as James Cameron ’ s The Terminator are a sub-genre of ‘ techno noir ’ that create "... an atmospheric feast of noir darkness and a double-edged world that is not what it seems.

Access to education in a minority language is also seen as a human right as granted by the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the UN Human Rights Committee.

In his 1946 paper “ Action Research and Minority Problems ” he described action research as “ a comparative research on the conditions and effects of various forms of social action and research leading to social action ” that uses “ a spiral of steps, each of which is composed of a circle of planning, action and fact-finding about the result of the action ”.

* Any Minority Government composed of a coalition of several ideologically unrelated political parties united only by opposition to one or more dominant parties.

He has also composed for his other bands, including Major Minority, which he formed in 1987, and Wanderlust, formed in 1991.

LPB is also part of the National Minority Consortia, an organization composed of several minority public broadcasting organizations who wish to bring more diversity to public broadcasting.

The number of members who serve on a Committee along with the party ratio of a Committee is determined by the Majority and Minority Leaders of the House with the exception of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct which is limited by the Rules to 5 majority members and 5 minority members.

" Media stars, some German and many American ( e. g. Tom Cruise, for the channel's broadcast of Minority Report and cast members of such shows as Lost, Desperate Housewives, or The O. C.

The two Senate leaders, Majority Leader Harry Reid ( D-NV ), and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ( R-KY ), headed a delegation of some twenty members of Congress who came to pay respects to the deceased senator.

A statement issued December 29, 2006, by the House Ethics Committee Chairman Doc Hastings ( R-Wash .) and Ranking Minority Member Howard Berman ( D-Calif .), said that Conyers acknowledged what he characterized as a " lack of clarity " in his communications with staff members regarding their official duties and responsibilities, and accepted responsibility for his actions.

The Speaker of the Council, the Majority Leader, and the Minority Leader are all ex officio members of every committee.

Further, the Board also includes four members representing professionals in the field of science and technology, one appointed by the Speaker and one by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, one appointed by the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader of the Senate.

In addition, the Majority Leader and Minority Leader are non-voting ex officio members of the committee.

There are also four ex officio members: both the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders and the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

" Minority Democratic members of the Committee derided these findings as " a legislative travesty ," " a witch hunt ," and " a political game.

Minority members opposed the action.

The four Republican council members are led by Minority Leader James Oddo.

The Speaker of the Council, the Majority Leader, and the Minority Leader are all ex officio members of every committee.

The Commission is an independent administrative board, consisting of nine citizens of the Commonwealth appointed by the Governor ; the Secretary of Education ex officio ; two members of the Senate appointed by the President Pro Tempore and Minority Leader ; and two members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker and Minority Leader.

The Dirksen Senate Office Building is the second office building constructed for members of the United States Senate in Washington, D. C., and was named for the late Minority Leader Everett Dirksen from Illinois in 1972.