majority leader
noun
: a leader of the majority party in a legislative body (such as the U.S. Senate)
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McConnell served as majority leader from 2015-2021.
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Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025
In 2018, for instance, Europe reacted to steel and aluminum tariffs by hitting American whiskey with a large tariff, which hurt Kentucky’s bourbon industry and, thus, a constituency critical to Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who was then the Senate majority leader.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2025
Thune and Trump have a complicated history, but the new majority leader is doing his best to start Congress off on the right foot.
—Axios, 20 Jan. 2025
Mitch McConnell, the long-standing Senate majority leader who’s in recent months receded from view.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2025
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Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025
In 2018, for instance, Europe reacted to steel and aluminum tariffs by hitting American whiskey with a large tariff, which hurt Kentucky’s bourbon industry and, thus, a constituency critical to Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who was then the Senate majority leader.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2025
Thune and Trump have a complicated history, but the new majority leader is doing his best to start Congress off on the right foot.
—Axios, 20 Jan. 2025
Mitch McConnell, the long-standing Senate majority leader who’s in recent months receded from view.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Majority leader.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majority%20leader. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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