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The party leadership of the United States Senate refers to the officials elected by the Senate Democratic Caucus and the Senate Republican Conference to manage the affairs of each party in the Senate. Each party is led by a floor leader who directs the legislative agenda of their caucus in the Senate, and who is augmented by an Assistant Leader ...
Senate Majority Leader: John Thune: SD: January 3, 2025 Party leader since January 3, 2025: Senate Majority Whip: John Barrasso: WY: January 3, 2025 Party whip since January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Republican Conference: Tom Cotton: AR: January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee: Shelley Moore Capito: WV: January 3, 2025
The Senate of the 119th Congress is composed in 2025 of 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and 2 independents; both the independents caucus with the Democrats.. The leaders are Senators John Thune of South Dakota and Chuck Schumer of New York. [1]
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.
In June 2018 he became the longest-serving Senate Republican leader in U.S. history. [42] McConnell is the second Kentuckian to serve as a party leader in the Senate (after Alben W. Barkley led the Democrats from 1937 to 1949) [18] and the longest-serving U.S. senator from Kentucky. [43]
After a delay in a power-sharing agreement between Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrats can now officially organize the Senate committees.
2 Current and former members of the U.S. Congress. 3 Judicial officeholders. ... This is a list of leaders and office-holders of United States of America.
Mitch McConnell’s future as leader of Senate Republicans seems in greater danger than at any time in recent memory, writes Julian Zelizer.