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  1. Leadership & Officers. Listed below are the current leadership and officers for the 118th Congress. Also available on Senate.gov are historical essays on and lists of Senate leadership and Senate officers . Constitutionally Mandated Officers. About the Offices of the Vice President and President Pro Tempore. Vice President. Harris, Kamala D.

  2. Republican leadership. Since January 20, 2021, the Republican Party has constituted a minority in the United States Senate . Republican senator who was the previous ( emeritus) president pro tem when the Republicans were in the majority, honorary member of Republican leadership.

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    Mitch McConnell is the Senate Majority Leader. Elected to that position unanimously by his Republican colleagues first in 2014 and again in 2016, he is only the second Kentuckian to ever serve as Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate. The first, Senator Alben Barkley, led the Democrats from 1937 to 1949.

    Senator McConnell previously served, again by the unanimous vote of his colleagues, as the Republican Leader from the 110th through the 113th Congresses and as the Majority Whip in the 108th and 109th Congresses. McConnell also served in leadership as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the 1998 and 2000 election cycles.

    McConnell has been called the most conservative leader of either party in the history of the Senate. He has also earned a reputation as a master tactician for permanently locking in critical tax relief for working families and small businesses, and putting in place the most significant spending reduction legislation in a generation.

    He has received praise from numerous media outlets for his work as Senate Majority Leader, and in 2015 TIME Magazine named McConnell one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

    First elected to the Senate in 1984, McConnell is Kentuckys longest-serving senator. He made history that year as the only Republican challenger in the country to defeat an incumbent Democrat and as the first Republican to win a statewide Kentucky race since 1968. On November 4, 2014, he was elected to a record sixth term by receiving broad support...

    McConnell worked as an intern on Capitol Hill for Senator John Sherman Cooper before serving as chief legislative assistant to Senator Marlow Cook and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General to President Gerald Ford. Before his election to the Senate, he served as judge-executive of Jefferson County, Kentucky, from 1978 until he commenced his Senate t...

    McConnell currently serves as a senior member of the Appropriations, Agriculture and Rules Committees. He is the proud father of three daughters. McConnell is married to Secretary Elaine L. Chao, the 18th U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Previously, Secretary Chao served for eight years as President George W. Bushs U.S. Secretary of Labor. She is ...

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  4. Republican Senators. John Barrasso Wyoming. Marsha Blackburn Tennessee. John Boozman Arkansas. Mike Braun Indiana. Katie Britt Alabama. Ted Budd North Carolina. Shelley Moore Capito West Virginia. Bill Cassidy Louisiana.

  5. The Senate is currently composed of 49 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 3 independents; all the independents caucus with the Democrats . The current leaders are Senators Chuck Schumer ( D) of New York and Mitch McConnell ( R) of Kentucky. [1]

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    January 3, 2023 –January 3, 2025
    January 20, 2021 – January 3, 2023
    January 3, 2021 – January 20, 2021
    January 3, 2019 –January 3, 2021
  6. Feb 28, 2024 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November.

  7. The official website of the United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the senior senator from Kentucky

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