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Who leads the senate party that is not in power?
Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is the current Minority Leader of the United States Senate .
Who is the leader of the senate according to the constitution?
The President of the Senate is actually the Vice President of the United States. The President Pro Tempore of Senate is the presiding officer (in the absence of the VP), which puts him or her third in the line of succession (behind the speaker of the house). The real power in the Senate, however, lies with the Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader. The leaders for the US Senate are the minority and majority leaders. Out of these the majority leader is considered greater. A complex answer is required for this basic question. The President of the Senate is the Vice President of the US, who rarely presides and very rarely is even present except in a ceremonial role or when a tie vote is anticipated. The majority party really runs the Senate and it select a President pro tempore and a Majority Leader. Again, the President pro tempore rarely leads the Senate and is more of an elder statesman. The Majority Leader runs the working of the Senate and most of his or her work is done behind the scenes. The Majority Leader also rarely takes the seat at the front of the Senate floor, gavel in hand and managing the debate. That task is assigned to a Presiding Officer, usually a new or very junior Senator in an effort to let them learn the routine. This Senator makes very few decisions and the Parliamentarian is on hand to advise him or her. So the Senate Leader can be any of the above, but the real power is in the hands of the Majority Leader.
President George W Bush's 1.2 trillion tax cut over a ten year period was passed by which of these?
The house of representatives is responsible for all spending measures. However, the house does not work in a vacuum. So bills go to a joint committee of the house and Senate. The executive branch only has popularity to influence congress as well as veto power. The higher the executive branches approval rating the better chance of getting congress to bend. The Answer can be determined by finding who was the speaker of the house(leads the dominating party to set the house agenda), the majority leader of the senate (leads the dominating party to set the senate agenda, and the joint committee chairmen of the bill that contained the tax cut. Those are the players that passed the tax cuts. It is not one person but a group of people. All these people could have stopped the tax cut but the threat of veto meant that pork barrel and special interest projects would be funded as well. Each party rails against the other but in the end they all compromise to fund special interest projects called earmarks. Each party blames the other yet they are all in collusion.
What part of government is led by the speaker of the house?
The speaker of the House leads the lower house of Congress which is half of the legislature of the US.
Which statement best describes the role of the speaker of the house of representatives?
The speaker leads to the House and sets rules related to its operations
