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Current President pro tempore
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Following the death of Daniel Inouye on December 17, 2012, Patrick Leahy.
The second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate. The United States Constitution states that the Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate, despite not being a senator, and that the Senate must choose a president pro tempore. Since 1890, the most senior senator in the majority party has generally been chosen to be president pro tempore; this tradition has been observed without interruption since 1949. During the Vice President's absence, the president pro tempore is empowered to preside over Senate sessions. In practice, neither the Vice President nor the President pro tempore usually presides; instead, the duty of presiding officer is rotated among junior senators of the majority party to give them experience in parliamentary procedure. The president pro tempore is third in the line of succession to the presidency, after the Vice President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives |
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Current Speaker of the House
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John Boehner
Republican from Ohio's 8th congressional district, serving since 1991. The district includes several rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton. Preceded by Nancy Pelosi Boehner, along with Newt Gingrich and several other Republican lawmakers, was one of the engineers of the Contract with America Boehner and Senator Ted Kennedy authored the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, In June 1995, Boehner distributed campaign contributions from tobacco industry lobbyists on the House floor as House members were weighing how to vote on tobacco subsidies On January 1, 2013, after passing the fiscal cliff deal, Boehner adjourned the house without passing the $60 million Hurricane Sandy relief bill. |
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Current Minority Leader
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Nancy Pelosi, 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. She was the first woman to hold the office and to date is the highest-ranking female politician in American history.
Represents California's 12th congressional district (San Fran) In 2001, Pelosi was elected the House Minority Whip, second-in-command to Minority Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri. She was the first woman in U.S. history to hold that post. In 2002, after Gephardt resigned as minority leader to seek the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election, Pelosi was elected to replace him, becoming the first woman to lead a major party in the House -refused to pursue impeachment against Bush -got healthcare reform passed -helped pass Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (Stock Act) - |
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Current New Jersey Senators
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-Jeff Chiesa
-Robert Mendez |
