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Assists the Chair in electing and reelecting Democrats to the Senate by aiding in organizing fundraising, candidate recruitment and sending new leaders to Washington that will move the country forward. [10] – Senate Democratic Chief Deputy Whip: Brian Schatz: Hawaii: Is the Chief Deputy to the Democratic Whip and chief of the democratic whip ...
Senate Majority Leader: John Thune: SD: January 3, 2025 Party leader since January 3, 2025: Senate Majority Whip: John Barrasso: WY: January 3, 2025 Party whip since January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Republican Conference: Tom Cotton: AR: January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee: Shelley Moore Capito: WV: January 3, 2025
The Senate of the 119th Congress is composed in 2025 of 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and 2 independents; both the independents caucus with the Democrats. The leaders are Senators John Thune of South Dakota and Chuck Schumer of New York. [1] The assistant leaders, or whips, are Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Dick Durbin of Illinois.
Senate Democrats also unanimously voted to approve their new leadership team for the 119th Congress, which kicks off in January with Donald Trump heading back to the White House.
Incoming U.S. Senate Republican leader John Thune faces the test of his career this year as he tries to steer Donald Trump's agenda through a narrowly divided Congress while protecting his own ...
The Senate minority whip from South Dakota will succeed Mitch McConnell as the head of Republicans in the chamber Republicans pick John Thune to be Senate majority leader - here’s what that ...
In June 2018 he became the longest-serving Senate Republican leader in U.S. history. [42] McConnell is the second Kentuckian to serve as a party leader in the Senate (after Alben W. Barkley led the Democrats from 1937 to 1949) [18] and the longest-serving U.S. senator from Kentucky. [43]
He currently serves as the Senate's Republican second-in-command and will succeed 82-year-old Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving party leader in the chamber's history. Thune was first elected to ...