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Responsible for fostering relations between Senate Democrats and community leaders and interest groups - chair split with Senator Sanders. 5. Vice Chairs of the Democratic Caucus. Mark Warner. Virginia. Position created for Schumer after successful tenure as DSCC chairman. Elizabeth Warren. Massachusetts. 6.
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 ...
Dick Durbin. Richard Joseph Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois, a seat he has held since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Durbin is in his fifth Senate term and has served as the Senate Democratic whip since 2005 (the second-highest position in ...
Addison Mitchell McConnell III[1] (/ məˈkɒnəl / mə-KON-əl; born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney who has been serving as senate minority leader since 2021 and the senior United States senator from Kentucky since 1985, the longest serving senator in his state's history. McConnell has been the leader of the ...
The United States Senate career of Joe Biden began on January 3, 1973, and ended on January 15, 2009. A member of the Democratic Party from the state of Delaware, Biden's first United States Senate election was from Delaware, elected to the Senate in 1973, and was sworn into office at the age of 30 (he was later reelected five times and is Delaware's longest-serving U.S. senator).
The current president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate is Patty Murray of Washington. The most senior senator in the majority Senate Democratic Caucus and the first woman to hold the position, she was sworn in on January 3, 2023, at the start of the 118th Congress.
Party leader since January 3, 2017: Senate Majority Whip: Dick Durbin: IL: January 20, 2021 Party whip since January 3, 2005: Chair of the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee: Debbie Stabenow: MI: January 3, 2017: Chair of the Senate Democratic Steering Committee: Amy Klobuchar: MN: January 3, 2017: Vice Chairs of the Senate ...
Each party elects Senate party leaders. Floor leaders act as the party chief spokesmen. The Senate majority leader is responsible for controlling the agenda of the chamber by scheduling debates and votes. Each party elects an assistant leader (whip), who works to ensure that his party's senators vote as the party leadership desires.