• The Majority Leader of the House has voted to raise the debt limit five times in his career in the House.

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  • "Our business plan looks wildly conservative all of a sudden, " says John Diamond, former Democratic majority leader of the Maine House of Representatives.

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  • Pressure mounted further as the Majority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives, Rep. Adam Hasner, worked with the state's Department of Children and Families and Attorney General Bill McCullom to ascertain the danger to which Ms. Bary could be exposed if she were relinquished by Florida authorities.

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  • The majority leader-elect of the House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer, said yesterday there aren't any more troops to increase because the Army is so depleted.

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  • But Essam Erian, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and leader of the majority party in Egypt's upper house of Parliament, criticized the proposed boycott.

    CNN: Egypt opposition leader calls for election boycott

  • In February 1997, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Senate Majority Leader, the House Majority Leader, and seven Senate and House Committee chairmen joined in a letter to OMB setting out Congressional expectations for the consultation process under GPRA. This letter, and OMB's response to it, became the basis for a second OMB issuance on Congressional consultation.

    WHITEHOUSE: Testimony of John A. Koskinen

  • And we've heard recently some intimations from the Senate Majority Leader and from the Speaker of the House -- or the Senate Minority Leader and the Speaker of the House that they think we should do a payroll tax, but the question is what price will they extract from the President in order to get it done.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on Confirming Richard Cordray

  • Political wrangling guaranteed a diversity of strongly held opinions. (The president, the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader were each asked to appoint three members.) In the end, the group had four members with direct or indirect ties to the gambling industry and five members with no such ties.

    ECONOMIST: Gambling on the future

  • House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said the House of Representatives would investigate the matter.

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  • You should ask the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader, the Senate Minority Leader, do they believe President Reagan was wrong when he said that back in 1985, saying essentially word for word what the President said today?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • It is removing from law -- if it gets through the entire Congress -- would remove from the law a provision that was passed under the previous administration, and voted for by Republicans, including the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Hence the Democrats' cheers this week when a criminal investigation of Republican fundraising in Texas reached the inner circle of the House majority leader.

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  • The panel was led by George Mitchell, the former Democratic majority leader of the Senate, and Newt Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House.

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  • Shouldn't the Speaker of the House and Senate majority leader have gone to the funeral of a Cabinet secretary?

    CNN: Washington Diary

  • So when you hear the House majority leader fairly purring about one of them--particularly one who happens to be the new White House budget chief--it's time to wonder: Has the thawing of partisan hatred begun?

    CNN: AllPolitics - TIME This Week

  • Speaker of the House John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and their fellow House Republicans should claim credit for this jobs recovery.

    FORBES: The House GOP Authors a Jobs Recovery

  • Given the support for the notion on the part of House Majority Leader-Elect Eric Cantor, who has promised to take the concept up with his colleagues with an eye towards introducing the Amendment in the House of Representatives, the Amendment might find itself taking the more traditional route.

    FORBES: The Lobbyist Retirement & Security Act of 2011

  • Several Republicans, including the speaker of the state house and the state senate majority leader, could run against freshman Sen.

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  • Blunt, a onetime protege of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been around the longest of the GOP leaders.

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  • Cantor is the House Majority Leader, which means that he is responsible for the mundane business of managing the schedule, the House floor, and committees, where legislation is generally written.

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  • The bill is also expected to pass the House of Representatives, where Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he would introduce the legislation next week.

    BBC: US Senate backs Congress insider trading ban

  • The imbroglio also raises the question of who runs the country: the prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, or Mr Kamei, the gadfly leader of a small coalition party, whose six parliamentarians give the DPJ its majority in the upper house of the Diet.

    ECONOMIST: Japan's failed postal privatisation

  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said last week the Finance Committee negotiators needed more time to complete their compromise agreement, while House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland said Monday that a vote won't happen by the end of the week, when the chamber is scheduled to break until after Labor Day.

    CNN: House health-care negotiations end night without a deal

  • Today, a Texas judge ruled that the treasurer of a political action committee associated with House Majority Leader Tom DeLay broke the law.

    NPR: Judge Finds DeLay's PAC in Violation of Texas Law

  • None of the four Democrats in the Gang of Eight Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman John D.

    NEWYORKER: Preparing the Battlefield

  • But he came to realize that a Kennedy was not the most appropriate person to chair hearings on the Nixon White House and supported Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's creation of the select "Ervin Committee" to finish the job.

    CNN: Commentary: Kennedy a worker, not a playboy

  • But beyond these two posts Dick Armey is under threat as majority leader in the House from Steve Largent of Oklahoma and Jennifer Dunn of Washington state, and John Boehner is being challenged by J.

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  • Again, he directed the Vice President to lead the talks with the House Majority Leader that produced the -- basically the foundation of the initial round of tax cuts that were -- I mean, of spending cuts that were part of any envisioned compromise.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The constitutional system of checks and balances limits the House's ability to force the Senate majority leader to act.

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  • In 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House, Cantor became the Majority Leader, and the highest elected Jewish official in America.

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