Party leaders of the United States Senate
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The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and people of the party leadership of the United States Senate. They serve as chief spokespersons for their respective political parties, holding the majority and the minority in the chamber. They are each elected to their posts by the senators of their party caucuses: the Senate Democratic Caucus and the Senate Republican Conference.
By Senate precedent, the presiding officer gives the majority leader priority in obtaining recognition to speak on the floor. The majority leader serves as the chief representative of their party in the Senate and is considered the most powerful member of the chamber. They also serve as the chief representative of their party in the entire Congress if the House of Representatives, and thus the office of the speaker of the House, is controlled by the opposition party. 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 of their respective parties on major issues. As the second-ranking members of Senate leadership, if there is no floor leader present, the whip may become acting floor leader.
Existing floor leaders
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 (R) of South Dakota and Chuck Schumer (D) of New York.[1] The assistant leaders, or whips, are Senators John Barrasso (R) of Wyoming and Dick Durbin (D) of Illinois.
History
At first a Senate leader was an informal position usually an influential committee chairman, or a person of great eloquence, seniority, or wealth, such as Daniel Webster and Nelson Aldrich. By at least 1850, parties in each chamber of Congress began naming chairs, and while conference and caucus chairs carried very little authority, the Senate party floor leader positions arose from the position of conference chair.[2]
Senate Democrats began electing their floor leaders in 1920 while they were in the minority. John W. Kern was a Democratic senator from Indiana. While the title was not official, the Senate website identifies Kern as the first Senate party leader, serving in that capacity from 1913 through 1917 (and in turn, the first Senate Democratic leader), while serving concurrently as chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus.[3]
In 1925, the Republicans (who were in the majority at the time) also adopted this language when Charles Curtis became the first (official) majority leader,[4] although his immediate predecessor Henry Cabot Lodge is considered the first (unofficial) Senate majority leader. However, despite this new, formal leadership structure, the Senate leader initially had virtually no power. Since the Democrats were fatally divided into northern liberal and southern conservative blocs, the Democratic leader had even less power than his title suggested.
Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader from 1923 to 1937, saw it as his responsibility not to lead the Democrats, but to work the Senate for the president's benefit, no matter who the president was. When Coolidge and Hoover were president, he assisted them in passing Republican legislation. Robinson helped end government operation of Muscle Shoals, helped pass the Hoover Tariff, and stymied a Senate investigation of the Power Trust. Robinson switched his own position on a drought relief program for farmers when Hoover made a proposal for a more modest measure. Alben Barkley called Robinson's cave-in "the most humiliating spectacle that could be brought about in an intelligent legislative body." When Franklin Roosevelt became president, Robinson followed the new president as loyally as he had followed Coolidge and Hoover. Robinson passed bills in the Hundred Days so quickly that Will Rogers joked "Congress doesn't pass legislation any more, they just wave at the bills as they go by.Template:Sfn
In 1937, the rule giving majority leader right of first recognition was created. With the addition of this rule, the Senate majority leader enjoyed far greater control over the agenda of which bills to be considered on the floor.
During Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as Senate leader, the leader gained new powers over committee assignments.[5]
Senatorial role of the vice president
The United States Constitution designates the vice president of the United States as president of the Senate. The Constitution also calls for a president pro tempore, to serve as the presiding officer when the president of the Senate (the vice president) is absent. In practice, neither the vice president nor the president pro tempore—customarily the most senior (longest-serving) senator in the majority party—actually presides over the Senate on a daily basis; that task is given to junior senators of the majority party. Since the vice president may be of a different party from the majority and is not a Senate member subject to discipline, the rules of procedure of the Senate give the vice president no power beyond the presiding role. For these reasons, it is the majority leader who, in practice, manages the Senate. This is in contrast to the House of Representatives, where the elected speaker of the House has a great deal of discretionary power and generally presides over votes on legislative bills.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Powers of the majority leader
Under a long-standing Senate precedent, motions or amendments by the majority leader are granted precedence over other motions by other senators. The majority leader can therefore make at any time a motion to proceed to the consideration of a bill on the Senate Calendar (which contains almost exclusively bills which have been reported by the committee they were assigned to); a motion to proceed may be agreed to either by unanimous consent or through the invocation of cloture. Conventionally, no senator other than the majority leader introduces motions to proceed, although every senator is theoretically allowed to. In addition, the majority leader can block consideration of amendments through a practice known as "filling the tree", and decides which members will fill each of the committee seats reserved to the majority party; members of committees are therefore often prone to following the instructions of the majority leader, and rarely place bills on the Senate Calendar without the latter's consent.[6]
List of party leaders
The Democratic Party first selected a leader in 1920. The Republican Party first formally designated a leader in 1925.[7]
| Congress | Dates | Democratic whip | Democratic leader | Majority | Republican leader | Republican whip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – March 4, 1915 |
rowspan=5 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Lewis J. Hamilton" |J. Hamilton Lewis (Illinois) |
None | rowspan=5 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Democratic ← majority |
None | None |
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – December 6, 1915 | |||||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – December 13, 1915 |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Wadsworth James Wolcott Jr" |James Wadsworth (New York) | |||||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – March 4, 1917 |
rowspan=7 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Curtis Charles" |Charles Curtis (Kansas) | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – March 4, 1919 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – April 27, 1920 |
rowspan=8 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Gerry Peter G." |Peter Gerry (Rhode Island) |
rowspan=10 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Republican majority → |
rowspan=5 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Lodge Henry Cabot" |Henry Cabot Lodge (Massachusetts, Unofficial) | ||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – March 4, 1921 |
rowspan=3 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Underwood Oscar" |Oscar Underwood (Alabama) | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – March 4, 1923 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – December 3, 1923 | |||||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – November 9, 1924 |
rowspan=9 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Robinson Joseph Taylor" |Joseph T. Robinson (Arkansas) | |||||
| November 9, 1924 – March 4, 1925 |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Curtis Charles" |Charles Curtis (Kansas, Acting) |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Jones Wesley Livsey" |Wesley Jones (Washington, Acting) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – March 4, 1927 |
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Curtis Charles" |Charles Curtis (Kansas) |
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Jones Wesley Livsey Jones" |Wesley Jones (Washington) | |||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – March 4, 1929 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – March 4, 1931 |
rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Sheppard Morris" |Morris Sheppard (Texas) |
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Watson James Eli" |James E. Watson (Indiana) |
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Fess Simeon D." |Simeon Fess (Ohio) | ||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – March 4, 1933 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1935 |
rowspan=5 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Lewis J. Hamilton" |J. Hamilton Lewis (Illinois) |
rowspan=11 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Democratic ← majority |
rowspan=6 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="McNary Charles L." |Charles L. McNary (Oregon) |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Hebert Felix" |Felix Hebert (Rhode Island) | |
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1937 |
NoneTemplate:Efn | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – July 14, 1937 | |||||
| July 14, 1937 – January 3, 1939 |
rowspan=9 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Barkley Alben W." |Alben W. Barkley (Kentucky) | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | January 3, 1939 – April 9, 1939 | |||||
| April 9, 1939 – January 3, 1940 |
rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Minton Sherman" |Sherman Minton (Indiana) | |||||
| January 3, 1940 – January 3, 1941 |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Austin Warren" |Warren Austin (Vermont, Acting) | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1943 |
rowspan=4 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Hill J. Lister" |J. Lister Hill (Alabama) |
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="McNary Charles L." |Charles L. McNary (Oregon) | |||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – February 25, 1944 |
rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Wherry Kenneth" |Kenneth Wherry (Nebraska) | ||||
| February 25, 1944 – January 3, 1945 |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="White Wallace H. Jr." |Wallace H. White (Maine, Acting) | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1947 |
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="White Wallace H. Jr.]]" |Wallace H. White (Maine) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1949 |
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Lucas Scott W." |Scott W. Lucas (Illinois) |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Republican majority → | |||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1951 |
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Myers Francis J." |Francis Myers (Pennsylvania) |
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Lucas Scott W." |Scott W. Lucas (Illinois) |
rowspan=3 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Democratic ← majority |
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Wherry Kenneth S." |Kenneth S. Wherry (Nebraska) |
rowspan=6 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Saltonstall Leverett" |Leverett Saltonstall (Massachusetts) |
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1952 |
rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Johnson Lyndon B." |Lyndon B. Johnson (Texas) |
rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="McFarland Ernest" |Ernest McFarland (Arizona) | |||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1953 |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Bridges Styles" |Styles Bridges (New Hampshire) | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – July 31, 1953 |
rowspan=3 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Clements Earle" |Earle Clements (Kentucky) |
rowspan=5 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Johnson Lyndon B." |Lyndon B. Johnson (Texas) |
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Republican majority → |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Taft Robert A." |Robert A. Taft (Ohio) | |
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1955 |
rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Knowland William" |William Knowland (California) | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1957 |
rowspan=16 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Democratic ← majority | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1959 |
rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Mansfield Mike" |Mike Mansfield (Montana) |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Dirksen Everett" |Everett Dirksen (Illinois) | |||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1961 |
rowspan=6 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Dirksen Everett" |Everett Dirksen (Illinois) |
rowspan=5 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Kuchel Thomas" |Thomas Kuchel (California) | |||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1963 |
rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Humphrey Hubert" |Hubert Humphrey (Minnesota) |
rowspan=9 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Mansfield Mike" |Mike Mansfield (Montana) | |||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1965 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1967 |
rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Long Russell B." |Russell Long (Louisiana) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1969 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – September 7, 1969 |
rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Kennedy Ted" |Ted Kennedy (Massachusetts) |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Scott Hugh" |Hugh Scott (Pennsylvania) | |||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1971 |
rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Scott Hugh" |Hugh Scott (Pennsylvania) |
rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Griffin Robert P." |Robert Griffin (Michigan) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1973 |
rowspan=3 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Byrd Robert" |Robert Byrd (West Virginia) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1975 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1977 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1979 |
rowspan=9 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Cranston Alan" |Alan Cranston (California) |
rowspan=8 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Byrd Robert" |Robert Byrd (West Virginia) |
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Baker Howard" |Howard Baker (Tennessee) |
rowspan=6 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Stevens Ted" |Ted Stevens (Alaska) | |
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – November 1, 1979 | |||||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – March 5, 1980 |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Stevens Ted" |Ted Stevens (Alaska, Acting) | |||||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1981 |
rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Baker Howard" |Howard Baker (Tennessee) | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1983 |
rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Republican majority → | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1985 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1987 |
rowspan=6 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Dole Bob" |Bob Dole (Kansas) |
rowspan=5 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Simpson Alan K" |Alan Simpson (Wyoming) | |||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1989 |
rowspan=4 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Democratic ← majority | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1991 |
rowspan=3 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Mitchell George J." |George Mitchell (Maine) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1993 |
rowspan=5 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Ford Wendell H." |Wendell Ford (Kentucky) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1995 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – June 12, 1996 |
rowspan=9 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Daschle Tom" |Tom Daschle (South Dakota) |
rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Republican majority → |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Lott Trent" |Trent Lott (Mississippi) | ||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1997 |
rowspan=7 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Lott Trent" |Trent Lott (Mississippi) |
rowspan=7 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Nickles Don" |Don Nickles (Oklahoma) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 1999 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2001 |
rowspan=6 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Reid Harry" |Harry Reid (Nevada) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 20, 2001 |
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Democratic ← majority | ||||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – June 6, 2001 |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Republican majority → | |||||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – November 23, 2002 |
style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Democratic ← majority | |||||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2003 |
rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Template:Longitem majority → | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2005 |
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Frist Bill" |Bill Frist (Tennessee) |
rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="McConnell Mitch]]" |Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) | |||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2007 |
rowspan=13 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Durbin Dick" |Dick Durbin (Illinois) |
rowspan=7 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Reid Harry" |Harry Reid (Nevada) | |||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – December 18, 2007 |
rowspan=5 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Democratic ← majority |
rowspan=11 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="McConnell Mitch]]" |Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) |
style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Lott Trent" |Trent Lott (Mississippi) | ||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2009 |
rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Kyl Jon" |Jon Kyl (Arizona) | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2011 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2013 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2015 |
rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Cornyn John" |John Cornyn (Texas) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2017 |
rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Republican majority → | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2019 |
rowspan=6 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Schumer Chuck" |Chuck Schumer (New York) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2021 |
rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Thune John" |John Thune (South Dakota) | ||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 20, 2021 | |||||
| Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2023 |
rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" |Democratic ← majority | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2025 | |||||
| Template:USCongressOrdinal | Script error: No such module "Date table sorting". – January 3, 2027 |
rowspan=1 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" |Republican majority → |
rowspan=1 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Thune John" |John Thune (South Dakota) |
rowspan=1 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" data-sort-value="Barrasso John" |John Barrasso (Wyoming) | ||
| Congress | Dates | Democratic whip | Democratic leader | Majority | Republican leader | Republican whip |
Chief deputy whips
The chief deputy whip is the assistant to the majority/minority whip and the head of the whip operations team for their party. The current Republican (majority) chief deputy whip is Mike Crapo (Idaho), who's been holding the office since 2013 and the current Democratic (minority) chief deputy whip is Brian Schatz (Hawaii).
List of Senate Democratic chief deputy whips
| Congress | Officeholder 1 | Term | Officeholder 2 | Term | Officeholder 3 | Term | Party whip | Majority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101st | Alan Dixon (Illinois)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1989–1993 | 2nd & 3rd positions not established | Alan Cranston | rowspan=3 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Dem MajorityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||
| 102nd | Wendell Ford | |||||||
| 103rd | John Breaux (Louisiana)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
1993–2005 | ||||||
| 104th | rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | GOP MajorityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||
| 105th | ||||||||
| 106th | Harry Reid | |||||||
| 107th | Dem ←→ GOPTemplate:EfnScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||
| 108th | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | GOP MajorityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||
| 109th | Barbara Boxer (California)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2005–2017 | Dick Durbin | |||||
| 110th | rowspan=4 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Dem MajorityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||||||
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| 115th | Brian Schatz (Hawaii)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2017–2023 | Jeff Merkley (Oregon)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2017–2025 | Cory Booker (New Jersey)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| 117th | Position abolished | rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Dem MajorityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn | ||||||
| 118th | Vacant | |||||||
| 119th | Brian Schatz (Hawaii)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
2025–present | Position abolished | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | GOP MajorityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | ||||
List of Senate Republican chief deputy whips
| Congress | Officeholder | Term | Party whip | Majority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 108th | Bob Bennett (Utah)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007 | Mitch McConnell | rowspan=2 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | GOP MajorityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| 110th | John Thune (South Dakota)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2009 | Trent Lott Jon KylTemplate:Efn |
rowspan=4 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Dem MajorityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
| 111th | Richard Burr (North Carolina)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2013 | Jon Kyl | |
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| 113th | Mike Crapo (Idaho)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
January 3, 2013 – present | John Cornyn | |
| 114th | rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | GOP MajorityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | |||
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| 116th | John Thune | |||
| 117th | rowspan=2 style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Dem MajorityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn | |||
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| 119th | John Barrasso | style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | GOP MajorityScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
See also
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- Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives
- President pro tempore of the United States Senate
- Vice President of the United States (President of the United States Senate)
- Party divisions of United States Congresses
- List of political parties in the United States
Notes
References
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External links
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