minority leader

Examples of minority leader in the following topics:

• Party Leadership in the House

  • Instead, the House uses the terms "Republican Leader" or "Democratic Leader" depending on which party holds a minority of seats.
  • The current House Majority Leader is Republican Kevin McCarthy, while the current House Minority Leader is Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
  • The Minority Leader of the House serves as floor leader of the opposition party and is the counterpart to the Majority Leader.
  • Unlike the Majority Leader, the Minority Leader is on the ballot for Speaker of the House when Congress convenes.
  • If the Minority Leader's party takes control of the House and the party officers are all re-elected to their seats, the Minority Leader is usually the party's top choice for Speaker for the next Congress, while the Minority Whip is typically in line to become Majority Leader.

• Congressional Campaign Committees

  • The Chairperson of the DCCC is the fourth ranking position among House Democrats, after the Minority Leader, the Minority Whip and the Democratic Caucus Chairperson.
  • For the 2012 election cycle, Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed congressman Steve Israel to serve as the committee's chair.
  • Republican Leader John Boehner and the seven other elected leaders of the Republican Conference of the House of Representatives serve as ex-officio members of the NRCC's executive committee.

• Party Leadership in the Senate

  • Each party is led by a floor leader who directs the legislative agenda of his caucus in the Senate, and who is augmented by an Assistant Leader or Whip, and several other officials who work together to manage the floor schedule of legislation, enforce party discipline, oversee efforts to elect new Senators, and maintain party unity.
  • The titular, non-partisan leaders of the Senate itself are the Vice President of the United States, who serves as President of the Senate, and the President pro tempore, the most senior member of the majority who theoretically presides in the absence of the Vice President.
  • The Senate Majority Leader is Harry Reid (Nevada) and serves as leader of the Senate Democratic Conference and manages the legislative business of the Senate.
  • Since January 3, 2007, the Republican Party has constituted the minority of the Senate.
  • Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) is the Senate Minority Leader and Jon Kyl (Arizona) is the Senate Minority Whip.

• The Staff System

  • The various types of congressional staff are as follows: personal staff, who work for individual members of Congress; committee staff, who serve either the majority or minority on congressional committees; leadership staff, who work for the speaker, majority and minority leaders, and the majority and minority whips; institutional staff, who include the majority and minority party floor staff and non-partisan staff; and the support agency staff, who are the non-partisan employees of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and Government Accountability Office (GAO).
  • Majority and minority members hire their own staff, with the exception of two committees in each house: the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the House, and the Select Committee on Ethics and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the Senate.

• Research Examples

  • The FTMs who did not experience these benefits tended to be smaller and minorities.
  • Ze found that the gay Christian males drew upon existing notions of masculinity, such as beliefs that men are breadwinners and leaders, emotionally controlled and rational, and dominants within relationships.
  • This was done to demonstrate their "masculine" selves to one another and convince themselves of their "rightful" place as church and community leaders.

• Relative Minor and Major Keys

  • Each minor key shares a key signature with a major key.
  • A minor key is called the relative minor of the major key that has the same key signature.
  • These useful accidentals are featured in the melodic minor and harmonic minor scales.
  • For example, C minor has the same key signature as E flat major, since E flat is a minor third higher than C.
  • C minor is the relative minor of E flat major.

• Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales

  • All of the scales above are natural minor scales.
  • They contain only the notes in the minor key signature.
  • Melodies in minor keys often use this particular pattern of accidentals, so instrumentalists find it useful to practice melodic minor scales.
  • Listen to the differences between the natural minor (http://cnx.org/content/m10856/latest/tonminnatural.mp3), harmonic minor (http://cnx.org/content/m10856/latest/tonminharmonic.mp3), and melodic minor (http://cnx.org/content/m10856/latest/tonminmelodic.mp3) scales.
  • Rewrite each scale from Figure 4.23 as an ascending harmonic minor scale.

• How Businesses Benefit from Diversity

  • An example of a company involved with creating diversity in the workplace is MentorNet, a nonprofit online mentoring organization that focuses on women and underrepresented minorities in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields.
  • The organization gives students, especially women and underrepresented minorities, the chance to seek mentors to discuss how to overcome obstacles in their fields and eventually their workplace.
  • Although the standpoint of the dominant group will often carry more weight, a transformational leader will encourage conflicting standpoints to coexist within an organization.

• Hosting Conventions

  • Due to the national media presence surrounding presidential nominating conventions, they are also excellent tools to showcase a given party's leaders and policies to prospective voters.
  • Some minor political parties in the U.S. also utilize conventions to select their presidential candidates.
  • Examples of such minor parties include the Green Party, Socialist Party USA, Libertarian Party, Constitution Party, and Reform Party USA.

• Conclusion: The Successes and Failures of Progressivism

  • Although the Progressive Era brought reform to government and business and increased political power for many citizens, its benefits were limited to white Americans; African Americans and other minorities continued to experience discrimination and marginalization during this era.
  • Women became especially involved in demands for woman suffrage, prohibition, and better schools; their most prominent leader was Jane Addams of Chicago.
  • The Progressive reformers of the time focused little of their effort on improving the lives of African Americans and other minorities.
  • Additionally, the Era also characterized by loose, multiple, and contradictory goals that impeded the efforts of reformers and often pitted political leaders against one another, most drastically in the Republican Party.
  • For instance, national Progressive leaders such as Roosevelt argued for increased federal regulation to coordinate big business practices while others, like Wilson, promised to legislate for open competition.