HIST 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nuclear Option, Cloture, Supermajority

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 120
• Professor: asda

Document Summary

Speaker of the house currently paul ryan(r). Speaker before each congress begins(both parties vote, but the majority party, if united, always wins). The position is 2nd in line to the presidency, behind the vp. They informally serve as the national spokesman for the party. House majority leader the principal partisan ally of the speaker of the. House or the party"s manager in the senate. The majority leader is responsible for scheduling bills, influencing committee assignments, and rounding up votes in behalf of the party"s positions. Senate minority leader leads the minority party in the senate. The principal leader of the minority party in the house. Party whips party leaders who work with the majority or minority leader to count votes beforehand and lean on waverers whose votes are crucial to a bill favored by a party. Filibuster a strategy unique to the senate whereby opponents of a piece of legislation try to talk the bill to death .