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He served from 2007 to 2025 as the leader of the Senate Republican Conference, including two stints as minority leader (2007 to 2015 and 2021 to 2025), and was majority leader from 2015 to 2021, making him the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history.
The Senate's executive and legislative business is also managed and scheduled by the majority leader. The assistant majority leader and assistant minority leader of the United States Senate, commonly called whips, are the second-ranking members of each party's leadership. The main function of the majority and minority whips is to gather votes ...
The constitutionally-defined Senate leadership roles are the Vice President of the United States, who serves as President of the Senate, and the President pro tempore, traditionally the most senior member of the majority, who theoretically presides in the absence of the Vice President. [2]
Three senators are running in a secret ballot election Wednesday for the leadership spot: Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas, and Rick Scott of Florida.
Rick Scott, a Florida Republican, had bid to unseat McConnell as the party's leader in the Senate in 2022, though McConnell retained power following a secret-ballot election, and he's faced ...
The private caucus leadership vote, which resulted in Taylor's reelection, revealed deeper schisms within the already fractured party.
The Senate's executive and legislative business is also managed and scheduled by the majority leader. [4] Key issues for the election include the proposed implementation of term-limits for the Senate Republican leader, a proposed expansion of the leaders power over appointments to Senate committees and how to pass president-elect Donald Trump's ...
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, waves as he walks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on September 26, 2024.