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The 108th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2005, during the third and fourth years of George W. Bush's presidency.
A member of the Republican Party, he also served as Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007. Born in Nashville, Tennessee , Frist studied government and health care policy at Princeton University and earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School.
In October 2001, while he was the Senate Majority Leader, ... Senate Majority Leader 2001–2003 Succeeded by. Bill Frist. Senate Minority Leader 2003–2005
The Senate held its first hearings into the policies in 2003. "The Senate finally corrects a 50-year mistake," proclaimed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, after ...
The Senate's executive and legislative business is also managed and scheduled by the majority leader. The assistant majority leader and assistant minority leader of the United States Senate, commonly called whips, are the second-ranking members of each party's leadership. The main function of the majority and minority whips is to gather votes ...
(The Center Square) – U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., to lead the party in the Senate. Senate Republicans voted via secret ballot to elect a new party ...
After unsuccessfully running to represent Alaska in the United States Senate, Stevens was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1964 and became House majority leader in his second term. In 1968 , Stevens again unsuccessfully ran for Senate, but he was appointed to Bob Bartlett 's vacant seat after Bartlett's death later that year.
Republicans hold a slight majority in the Senate and in the House of Representatives. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, waves as he walks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C ...