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Scheduling of legislation is the job of the Majority Leader. Bills can be brought to the floor whenever a majority of the Senate chooses. So, as per the senate rules, ML can indeed decide what is allowed or not allowed to be voted on, by controlling the schedule. Note that the Majority Leader only has control over votes on the bills. Not over ...
Enforcing the Senate Rules and Precedents The Senate's presiding officer (whether it is the Vice President or a Senator of the majority party) does not always call a violation of Senate rules to the chamber's attention.5 The Senate can violate its procedures unless a Senator, at the right moment, makes a point of order that the proposed action ...
Imagine a time where the GOP hold 30 Senate Seats, the DNC holds 31 seats and some third party holds the remaining 39 seats. That third party should logically be the majority party. However the other two parties have enough votes that they could force through rules that would prevent the third party from having any leadership abilities, or even ...
In the Senate, the bill is submitted to clerks on the Senate floor. Upon introduction, the bill will receive a designation based on the chamber of introduction, for example, H.R. or H.J.Res. for House-originated bills or joint resolutions and S. or S.J.Res. for Senate-originated measures.
Three quarters of a century later, in 1917, senators adopted a rule (Rule 22), at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, that allowed the Senate to end a debate with a two-thirds majority vote, a device known as "cloture." The new Senate rule was first put to the test in 1919, when the Senate invoked cloture to end a filibuster against the ...
To more directly answer the question of why Democrats are considered the "majority" party in the Senate (and thus, why Schumer is considered the Majority Leader,) it's because the two technically "independent" Senators (Bernie Sanders from Vermont and Angus King from Maine) caucus with the Democrats and, as such, agree to vote in favor of ...
@PeterCordes Calling it "disconnected from English" is a bit of an overreaction. Schumer is the leader of the majority caucus, which yes, is 50-50 but becomes the majority based on the VP in their constitutional role as President of the Senate. –
The President of the Senate (the Senate has no speaker position) does not control anything. If they did, then when the Senate and presidency are held by different parties, the Vice-President would take control of the Senate from the President pro tempore. Instead, these rules are set by the House and Senate themselves.
According to that the majority leader's power derives from the president pro tempore's willingness to recognize him first. However, the Vice President constitutionally outranks the president pro tempore as the presiding officer of the senate, even though the VP does not usually use this power nowadays.
So, a Motion to Discharge is more often used when the Majority Leader wants to override a non-compliant committee chair whose committee has had a bill referred to it for consideration upon introduction in the Senate, than it is to circumvent the Majority Leader's power to schedule when matters will be considered by the Senate. Non-Germane ...