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United States Senate Minority Leader - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (152 words) |
 | The Senate Minority Leader is a member of the United States Senate who is elected by the party conference which holds the minority in the Senate to serve as the chief Senate spokesperson for his or her party and to manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate. |
| The term Floor Leaders refers to both the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader. |
| The current Minority Leader is Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada. |
| Tom Daschle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (885 words) |
| Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947), known as Tom Daschle, was a U.S. Senator from South Dakota and the Senate Minority Leader. |
| From January 3, 2001, to January 20, 2001, Daschle became Senate Majority Leader for the first time, as the Senate was evenly divided with 50 members from each major party, and as long as Al Gore was Vice President of the United States, this gave the Democrats the majority in that chamber. |
| However, when Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont announced in May 2001 that he was leaving the Republican caucus to become an independent and would caucus with the Democrats, this returned control of the body to the Democrats and Daschle again became Majority Leader. |
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