Majority And Minority Leaders In Congress

Congress is separated into the two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives, after each election the party with the most representatives is considered the majority party. The other party is then considered the minority party, either way they both have their leader, and their whip, although the majority also gets the Speaker of the House. Usually the same party is the majority in both houses like right now, in both Houses, Republicans are the majority party, and the Democrats are the minority party. Anyways, all the congressional leaders influence legislation in Congress. For example both the majority, and minority leaders in the Senate do the same thing. Both leaders talk about their political party’s views, to make others get behind them, and believe what they do. …show more content…
Just like the leaders in the Senate, they want supporters, they want more people to agree to their propositions. Also, just like in the Senate their are also the Whips, in the House, their job is to assist the leaders by dealing with their parties legislative program. The speaker of the House, which is another congressional leader in the House, but is only attained by the majority party, presides over events occurring on the House floor, he also serves as an elected member of the House while being the second person in line to succeed the President right after the Vice President. Different congressional leaders affect and influence the legislation in different ways. Most do it by talking about their political parties and views, to convince others to convince others of what they are saying. The leaders in the House of Representatives might have a bigger say in the legislation since there are 435 representatives and only 100 senators. The Senate still has a say in legislation though, they represent the people from their state, to get them what they want, while writing and passing