congressional leadership: speaker of the house
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Congressional Leadership: Speaker of the House. John Boehner (OH) (Republican) #1 Position in House Assigns Bills to Committees Assigns Congressmen to Committees Controls Agenda Presides over House http://www.speaker.gov. Minority Leader. #1 Minority Party Nancy Pelosi (CA) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Congressional Leadership: Speaker of the House
John Boehner (OH) (Republican)
#1 Position in House
Assigns Bills to Committees
Assigns Congressmen to Committees
Controls Agenda
Presides over House http://www.speaker.gov
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Minority Leader #1 Minority Party Nancy Pelosi (CA) Assigns members
to Committees Voice of Minority
Party http://www.democraticleader.
gov/
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Eric Cantor (VA)
#2 in Majority Party
Assists Speaker w/Agenda
http://republicanleader.house.gov/
Majority Leader
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Encourage party discipline
Keep party members informed of party position on issues.
Whip Notice ◦ House agenda, time for
votes, position on votes.http://www.democraticwhip.gov/
Whips
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Majority Leader #1 Position in Senate
◦ Most Important
Harry Reid (NV)
Assigns Bills to Committee
Assigns Members to Committee
Controls Senate Agenda
Senate Leadership
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President of the Senate◦ Vice President
Breaks Ties
Presides over debate
Seldom Present
President Pro Tempore◦ Temporary President
Majority Party member with most seniority.
Patrick Leahy (VT)◦ Elected 1975
Senate Leadership
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Minority Leader◦ #1 Position in
minority party◦ Mitch McConnell (KY)
Majority and Minority Whips◦ Same role as House
Whips
Senate Leadership
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20 in the House 16 in the SenatePurpose: Main part of law-
making process.◦ Craft/analyze
possible legislation
Investigate/Oversight
Standing in Senate-Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry -Appropriations -Armed Services -Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs -Budget -Commerce, Science, and Transportation -Energy and Natural Resources -Environment and Public Works -Finance -Foreign Relations -Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions -Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs -Judiciary -Rules and Administration -Small Business and Entrepreneurship -Veterans Affairs
Standing Committees
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HOW CONGRESSMEN VOTE Representational
Organizational
Attitudinal