How to Use majority leader in a Sentence

majority leader

noun

• But the next day, Devin LeMahieu, the majority leader in the Senate, shot down the idea of impeachment.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2023
• Her view finds an echo with Mike Schultz, the House majority leader.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• And we are joined now by the senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer.
  — ABC News, 12 Feb. 2023
• But Dodd said McGuire has had no problem telling him no over the years as majority leader.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• In 1973, she was elected as the majority leader, becoming the first woman to hold the post in any state.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Standing in a small cafe after dusk, Denys held the phone in his hand as the majority leader thanked him for his service.
  — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• Now, the likelihood of Scalise helping Jordan win over the majority leader's allies on the House floor is slim.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2023
• Here is a look at the life of Bill Frist, heart and lung transplant surgeon and former Senate majority leader.
  — CNN, 13 Feb. 2022
• Emmer would be in line to run for majority leader if Scalise ascends to the speaker's office.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2023
• Last year, her peers elected her majority leader of the state senate, the first woman and first openly gay person to serve in that role.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• But that did not matter to Trump and McConnell, who was Senate majority leader at that time.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
• The majority leader has the ability to determine which proposals do and don't come up for a vote in the Senate.
  — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2022
• The Hill reported that Sen. Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, at that point, is expected to force a vote on the filibuster rule.
  — Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2022
• The Senate majority leader was in the House in 1994, got some big legislation through.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 31 Oct. 2022
• The bill originated in the Senate, where the majority leader, Tom Takubo, is a lung doctor.
  — John Raby, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
• Costello, a former teacher, served two terms in the House, then moved to the Senate in 2015 for two terms there, which included a stint as majority leader.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2022
• Schumer has served as majority leader since 2021 and now heads into his fifth term as a senator.
  — Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2022
• John Coghill served for more than 20 years in the Legislature, with a stint as Senate majority leader.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2023
• Benninghoff was elected to the majority leader post in June 2020.
  — NBC News, 13 Jan. 2022
• But as the majority leader, Mr. Schumer brings a level of heft to talks with the United States’ chief geopolitical rival.
  — Karoun Demirjian, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Montenegro served served four terms in the House after being elected in 2008, and was majority leader for two years.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
• The late Montana senator will still hold the record for most years as majority leader, but McConnell will top him as leader of his party.
  — Steven T. Dennis, Bloomberg.com, 3 Jan. 2023
• Kilgore has served as majority leader under Gilbert for the past two years.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• The Senate majority leader works with committee chairs and ranking members to get bills scheduled on the floor.
  — Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2022
• The Democrat from Strongsville served a total of nine years on council, during which time he was elected majority leader.
  — cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
• One of them, Jason Osborne, the House majority leader, was recently found to have used racial slurs in an online forum in 2011.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• As majority leader, Johnson arguably did more than anyone else to ensure the passage of a civil rights act in 1957.
  — Zachary Clary, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2023
• Republicans only need to gain a total of one more seat to make McConnell the Senate majority leader once again.
  — David R. Jones, The Conversation, 7 July 2022
• Rather than passing their spending plan to the House earlier in the session, Senate majority leaders have elected to stall the process until the last possible day.
  — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
• Two years later, he was selected to serve as Senate majority leader.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024