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The Illinois Senate is the upper chamber of the Illinois General Assembly, the legislative branch of the government of the State of Illinois in the United States. The body was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818.
The Illinois General Assembly is the legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois. It has two chambers, the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. The General Assembly was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818. As of 2025, the current General Assembly is the 104th; the term of an assembly lasts two years.
Floy Clements (1958) and Earlene Collins (1977) became the first African-American women to be elected to the House and Senate, respectively. Cecil A. Partee rose to become the first Minority Leader (1973) and President of the Senate (1975).
On November 5, 2020, McConchie was selected as Senate Republican Leader-elect for the 102nd General Assembly, [18] [19] [20] and he was confirmed to the position on January 13, 2021. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] On November 15, 2022, shortly after the 2022 Illinois Senate election , McConchie was not re-elected by his caucus to serve as the Illinois Senate ...
Bill Brady was the Republican Minority Leader of the Illinois Senate from July 1, 2017, to December 31, 2020. On November 4, 2020, Brady announced he would step down as Senate party leader and would "[hint] at another run for statewide office." [5] Dan McConchie was elected on November 5, 2020, as then-leader-elect of the Republican caucus. [6]
The minority leader in U.S. politics (as well as in some other countries utilizing the presidential system) is the floor leader of the second largest caucus in a legislative body. [1] Given the two- party nature of the U.S. system, the minority leader is almost inevitably either a Republican or a Democrat .
The majority leader sets the Senate’s legislative agenda, including what pieces of legislation to debate and vote on and when, and manages business like scheduling votes, hearings and meetings ...
As the Senate Minority Leader, Dirksen emerged as a prominent national figure of the Republican Party during the 1960s. He developed a good working relationship with Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and supported President Lyndon B. Johnson's handling of the Vietnam War. He helped break the Southern filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of ...