After repeatedly mangling the House and the Senate personalities and job duties, I realized I had no clear understanding of the organizational flow of power, so went on a hunt through my books and Wikipedia to teach myself.
The 109th Congressional leaders are/were as follows:
President of the Senate: Vice President Dick Cheney
President Pro Tempore: Ted Stevens
Senate Majority Leader: Bill Frist
Senate Majority Whip: Mitch McConnell
Senate Minority Leader: Harry Reid
Senate Minority Whip: Richard Durbin
House of Representatives:
Speaker of the House: Dennis Hastert
House Majority Leader: DeLay (until 9/28/2005), Blunt (9/28/2005 until 2/2/2006), Boehner 2/2/2006 to present.
House Majority Whip: Roy Blunt
House Minority Leader: Nancy Pelosi
House Minority Whip: Steny Hoyer
The 110th Congressional leaders are/will be:
President of the Senate: Vice President Dick Cheney
President Pro Tempore: Robert Byrd
Senate Majority Leader: Harry Reid
Senate Majority Whip: Richard Durbin
Senate Minority Leader: Mitch McConnell
Senate Minority Whip: Trent Lott? Lamar Alexander?
House of Representatives:
Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi
House Majority Leader: John Murtha? Steny Hoyer?
House Majority Whip: James Clyburn
House Minority Leader: Mike Pence? John Boehner?
House Minority Whip: Roy Blunt? John Shadegg?
My confusion: Why is the Speaker of the House third in line rather than the head of the Senate after the Vice President? Explained here.
The RNC and the DNC leaders are often retired elected officials but are put into power by their parties national committees not by public election.
I'm sure I will find more confusion to clarify and my Blenderized Version will be quite thick.
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Which explains why Bush and co. are so terrified of her then. Nice.
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