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From a party perspective, the minority leader has a wide range of partisan assignments, all geared toward retaking majority control of the House. Five principal party activities direct the work of the minority leader. The minority leader provides campaign assistance to political party incumbents and challengers.
We argue that minority party capacity in Congress is a function of three factors: constraints on the majority party, which create opportunities for the minority; minority party cohesion on the issue at hand; and the minority party’s motivation to engage in legislating rather than electioneering.
About Parties and Leadership | Majority and Minority Leaders. With each new Congress, the Democratic and Republican Conferences elect one of their members to serve as party leader. Depending on which party is in power, one party leader serves as majority leader and the other as minority leader.
Learn all about the roles of the majority and minority political party leaders and whips in the U.S. Congress.
Majority and minority leaders represent their respective parties on the House floor. Whips assist leadership in managing their party's legislative program on the House floor. A party caucus or conference is the name given to a meeting of or organization of all party members in the House.
Broadly speaking, the role of the minority leader in the contemporary Congress is twofold: to serve as the leader and spokesperson for the minority party, and to participate in certain institutional prerogatives afforded to Members in the minority.
If a party goes from the minority to the majority in the House, the minority leader can usually expect to become Speaker, and the minority whip becomes the majority leader. When there’s a change in control in the Senate, the minority leader typically becomes the majority leader.