Definition of majority leader
: a leader of the majority party in a legislative body (such as the U.S. Senate)
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The View's Joy Behar unloading on President Trump, while also taking aim at Mitch McConnell, the senate majority leader, for his role in blocking President Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland.
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Parson last month tapped Kehoe, a Jefferson City Republican who had served as the Senate majority leader, to serve as his replacement.
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Senator Kamala Harris proposed delaying confirmation hearings for Mr Kennedy’s successor until after the next election, which falls in November 2018, just as Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, did with Barack Obama’s nominee in 2016.
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Since becoming majority leader, McConnell has held Supreme Court justices to the same lower threshold.
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Then Dave Brat, an unknown college professor, defeated the sitting House majority leader, Eric Cantor, Va., in the 2014 Republican primary largely by accusing Cantor of supporting amnesty, ending any hope of an Obama-Republican deal.
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Then Dave Brat, an unknown college professor, defeated the sitting House majority leader, Eric Cantor, Va., in the 2014 Republican primary largely by accusing Cantor of supporting amnesty, ending any hope of an Obama-Republican deal.
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Its majority leader, Democrat Julio Concepcion, won a special election Monday to complete the remainder of embattled State Rep. Angel Arce’s term in the 4th Assembly District.
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But those who perpetuate the disinformation campaigns, including the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the House and Senate majority leaders, and the president of the United States, likely do.
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First Known Use of majority leader
1909
MAJORITY LEADER Defined for English Language Learners
majority leader
Definition of majority leader for English Language Learners
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: the leader of the political party that has the most members in the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives
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majority leader
noun
majority lead·er
legal Definition of majority leader
: a leader of the majority party in a legislative body
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