How to Use majority leader in a Sentence
majority leader
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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
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Her view finds an echo with Mike Schultz, the House majority leader.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 13 May 2022
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And we are joined now by the senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer.
—ABC News, 12 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Here is a look at the life of Bill Frist, heart and lung transplant surgeon and former Senate majority leader.
—CNN, 13 Feb. 2022
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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
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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
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But that did not matter to Trump and McConnell, who was Senate majority leader at that time.
—Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
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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
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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
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The Senate majority leader was in the House in 1994, got some big legislation through.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 31 Oct. 2022
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The bill originated in the Senate, where the majority leader, Tom Takubo, is a lung doctor.
—John Raby, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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Benninghoff was elected to the majority leader post in June 2020.
—NBC News, 13 Jan. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Kilgore has served as majority leader under Gilbert for the past two years.
—Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
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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
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The Democrat from Strongsville served a total of nine years on council, during which time he was elected majority leader.
—cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Two years later, he was selected to serve as Senate majority leader.
—Daniel Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
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