Majority party member with the most seniority is what?
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They are known as the "Majority Whip".
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Hard to predict, but i'd go for a hung parliment with the liberals holding the balance. Outright, i'd say labour would have the majorty.
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Seniority, I guess.  We're a group of girl-friends all of whom are my best friends. However, the one who holds the official title is the one I've known the longest and grew up with. I've known her for almost 20 years now so we have a lot of history together.  Plus, she's always the one I turn to whenever I have major problems.
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A whip in the United States House of Representatives is a member of the party leadership who comes second in line after the party's floor leader, which in the house is the House Majority Leader or the House Minority Leader.\n\nThe Majority Whip is an elected member of the majority party who assists the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader to coordinate ideas on and garner support for proposed legislation. This position, unlike Speaker of the House, is not mandated by the Constitution. Instead, it emerged near the beginning of the 20th century.\n\nThe Minority Whip is a member of the minority party who assists the Minority Leader in coordinating the party caucus in its responses to legislation and other matters.\n\nThe Majority Whip of the 109th Congress is Republican Roy Blunt of Missouri.\n\nThe Minority Whip of the 109th Congress is Democrat Steny Hoyer of Maryland.
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Republicans - the haves\nDemocrats - the have nots
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Speaker of the House is Dennis Hastart a Republican from Illinois, Majority leader is now John Boehner(sp) a Republican from Ohio, & the Minority leader is Nancy Pelosi a Democrat from California
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Top 5 is kind of hard, because how do you determine the top 5?  I will do the top 4 because that is easier.\n\nPresident - GW Bush served as an officer in the Air Force National Guard.  Trained as an F4 pilot.\nVice President - Cheney has none\nHouse Majority leader - Hastert has none\nSenate Majority leader - Frist has none\n\nDemocrats?  Here they are.\n\nHouse Minority Leader - Pelosi has none\nHouse Minority Whip - Hoyer has none\nSenate Minority Leader - Reid has none\nSenate Minority Whip - Durbin has none
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It will still be Harry Reid of Nevada who led the Dems when they were in the minority.\n\nOnly now, he's the Majority Leader :)
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Hmm, that's a tricky one.\n\nAge is not important.\n\nSeniority IS VERY important.\n\nViews on issues and the president's policies are basically the same thing, but since the question involves Congress, I would say it's not the 4th one.\n\nMy best educated assumption would be seniority.
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Politicians are the most powerful persons in India.  I think Sonia is most powerful lady in Indian politics now. \n\nFamily ruling in India is continuing and it will continue further and further. Most of the MPs and MLAs are from professional political families.
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The Speaker of the House (what you're calling house majority leader) has more power because that's the way our Founding Fathers set it up.  Senators are not necessarily more powerful than House members.  Newly-elected Senators are much less powerful than House committee chairpersons.  The Committee chairmen of Appropriations, Rules and Ways and Means are extremely powerful.  Congressmen would much rather have these jobs than Senate Majority Leader.  With Appropriations and Ways and Means you're controlling the purse of the country and with Rules, you're controlling the agenda.
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Actually the greatest percentage of Wealth in Congress is in the hands of Democrats.  There is a significantly higher percentage of Democat millionaires than Republicans.  Actually the average Republican is a small business owner, a family with 2 children, certain conservative spiritual persons, and middle aged men. Business gives donations equally to Democrats and Republicans and are not as people believe Republican.
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The upper house tends to offer a voice to the more marginalised minority groups in a society who don't tend to fair so well in the elections to the majoritarian lower house. The groups represented vary from state to state, such as trade union representatives and members of the aristocracy or academia. Another chamber also offers further scrutiny to the activities of the legislature, always important in a healthy democracy.
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definately the Jew, i don't think this country is going to have a minority leader for awhile, although they really aren't a minority, the probability is highly unlikely, atleast not in this next election anyways.
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they're the majority based on the number of seats held in the house or senate, which both is and isn't representative of public opinion. if there are more democrats in congress, the majority leader is a democrat and the minority leader a republican, and vice versa. (it's unusual, btw, for one party to control the white house, the house, AND the senate all at the same time, like we have now and probably not for long...) hope this helps! :)
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I don't know what you are trying to make, but a political party usually gets its power from having a large number of members.  How can you get your candidates elected by a majority vote if you don't have a lot of voters voting for your candidate?
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The Leader of the Party that commands a majority in House of Commons or more accurately the Member that commands/appears to command the majority support in afore-said House.\n\nThe Rt Hon Anthony Blair is that person. The Queen's power is limited, in fact she gets the door slammed in Her face every time she visits Parliament and has to knock 3 times before it is opened.