The South Dakota Republican is set to lead the Senate as majority leader in the new Congress, after Republicans flipped the chamber in the 2024 elections. Who is John Thune? Thune, 63, currently serves as the GOP whip, the No. 2 Republican role. With a long history in leadership, he...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving leader in the Senate history, announced Wednesday that he will step down from the position at the end of the year. "One of life's most underappreciated talents is to know when it's time to move ...
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Thune introduced the new Senate GOP leadership team: Sen. John Barrasso as the majority whip, the No. 2 spot in leadership; Sen. Tom Cotton as Republican conference chair; Sen. Shelley Moore Capito as Republican policy committee chair; Sen. James Lankford as the Republican conference vice chair...
The US Senate is a diffuse and individualistic body that is notoriously hard to lead. Somewhat ironically, the job of the Senate Minority Leader on Capitol Hill today is probably easier than that of his majority counterpart, since the Minority Leader is
Sen.Josh Hawley(R-Mo.), a rising conservative star, announced this week that he will support Sen.John Cornyn(R-Texas) in the Senate Republican leadership race, giving Cornyn his first public endorsement in the Senate GOP conference.
McConnell said he plans to serve out his Senate term, which ends in January 2027, "albeit from a different seat in the chamber." Aides said McConnell’s announcement about the leadership post was unrelated to his health. The Kentucky senator had a concussion from a fall last year and two ...
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Republican Sen. John Braun has been elected by his caucus to be the new Senate minority leader.
In an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," Buttigieg admitted that the federal government has – "for better or for worse" – a system of checks and balances where Senate leadership could "disagree with a majority of the American people." He said that if a Republican Senate used their po...
Senate Democrats criticized the Republican leadership for their failure to offer a long-term transportation funding measure for the U.S. Highway Trust Fund (HTF) passed by the U.S. Congress. The Democrats who slam the Republicans include Senators Charles Schumer of New York, Richard Blumenthal ...