How to Use majority leader in a Sentence

majority leader

noun
  • In the Senate, Chuck Schumer is in the driver's seat as the majority leader.
    Emily Brooks, Washington Examiner, 20 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Schumer, who has spent 40 years on Capitol Hill, is in his first year as majority leader.
    John Harwood, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
  • In this case, that court would comprise the state Senate — minus its majority leader — and the seven judges of the state’s highest court.
    Anna M. Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Re-elected in 1992, she was named the House majority leader.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Look, the Senate majority leader is not known as a fashion icon.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 29 Apr. 2021
  • 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 majority leader laid out a two-punch strategy on the Senate floor on Monday night.
    Lauren Fox, CNN, 20 July 2021
  • Two were fired by the majority leader and then rehired later.
    Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • 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
  • Schumer, the Senate majority leader, hopes to have votes on potential amendments and the overall bill by week’s end.
    Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Benninghoff was elected to the majority leader post in June 2020.
    NBC News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • In the Senate, the typical practice is for the majority leader to make motions to proceed.
    Lindsay Wise, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Sandra Jauregui, the Assembly majority leader, is supporting the Sony project, which would cost the state $80 million a year.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
  • But that, for history, was a very momentous meeting, in the sense of you were the Senate Democratic leader, the majority leader, meeting with the president to discuss the presidential race.
    CBS News, 28 July 2024

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