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U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday the Senate will not consider bills Democrats plan to vote on in the House on Thursday that would end the government shutdown but not include President Donald Trump’s demand for $5 billion for a border wall.
8. Yes. There are two main ways that this can happen. As explained at the U.S. Senate website: Senate rules also permit a measure to be placed directly on the calendar when introduced or received from the House. This process permits senators to bypass referral to a committee they believe unsympathetic. Alternatively, if a committee fails to ...
When a Senate standing committee reports a bill back to the Senate for floor debate and passage, the bill is placed on the Senate's Calendar of Business (under the heading of "General Orders"). The Senate gives its majority leader the primary responsibility for proposing the order in which bills on the calendar should come to the floor for action.
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 Democratic Senate leadership and are appointed to ...
Probably worthy of a full answer, but the blog post What makes Senate leaders so powerful? thoroughly addresses this: "In reality, any rank-and-file member, or the minority leader, can make a motion to proceed to a bill or nominee on the Senate floor. They simply choose not to and instead defer to the majority leader to do so." –
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.
8. Yes. The following are all options I'm aware of: A 2/3 of the Senate (67+ votes) can vote to expel any sitting Senator as per Article 1, Section 5 of US Constitution. An expelled Senator can of course no longer serve as a Majority leader. "Each House [of Congress] may determine the Rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly ...
The current congressional term (117th Congress) started on January 3, 2021 with a Republican majority in the Senate, hence Mitch McConnell is the majority leader. As the Democrats have won both Georgia runoffs, the Senate will have a 50–50 majority in favour of the Democrats after January 20 as VP Harris will be able to break ties.
Since the Senate relies heavily on the majority party's leader, what would happen in the unlikely event that the two major parties are tied in the Senate, and the President/VP are third-party or independent? Would they have to elect a President Pro Tempore that would actually do work, and have that person act like the Majority Leader does now?
As a result, a Democratic senator, Harry Reid, became Majority Leader. Given this precedent, we can conclude that in the 50(52)-48 scenario you describe, a Democratic senator would serve as Majority Leader. However, even if the independent senators didn't caucus with the Democrats, a Democrat would still become Majority Leader.