In U.S. politics, the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body.
In the federal Congress, the roles differ slightly in the two houses: the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and the Majority Leader of the Senate, respectively. In the House of Representatives, which chooses its own presiding officer, the leader of the majority party is elected the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives is something of a misnomer then, as the title is given to the majority party's second in command. In the United States Senate, its president is ex officio the Vice-President of the United States, and the President pro tempore is a largely ceremonial position, so the majority leader is the actual leader of the majority party.
The role of majority leaders thus differs slightly between the two chambers.
Given the two-party nature of the U.S. system, the majority leader is almost inevitably either a Republican or a Democrat.
Simple majority may refer to:
In American and Canadian usage:
Usage elsewhere:
Eric Ivan Cantor (pronounced /ˈkæntɚ/; born June 6, 1963) is the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 7th congressional district, serving since 2001. A member of the Republican Party, he became House Majority Leader when the 112th Congress convened on January 3, 2011. He previously served as House Minority Whip from 2009 to 2011.
His district includes most of the northern and western sections of Richmond, along with most of Richmond's western suburbs and portions of the Shenandoah Valley. Cantor is the only Jewish Republican currently serving in the U.S. Congress, and the highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress in its history.
Cantor, the second of three children, was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Mary Lee (née Hudes), a schoolteacher, and Eddie Cantor, who owned a real estate firm. His paternal family immigrated from Eastern Europe in the early 1900s and his maternal grandfather was born in Romania. His father was the state treasurer for Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. Cantor was raised in Conservative Judaism. He graduated from the Collegiate School in 1981. He enrolled at George Washington University (GW) in 1981, and as a freshman he worked as an intern for House Republican Tom Bliley of Virginia and was Bliley's driver in the 1982 campaign. Cantor was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity while at GW and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1985 He earned a Juris Doctor degree from William & Mary Law School in 1988, and received a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in 1989.
Plot
Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like the President. As such, when Mitchell wants to escape an official luncheon, the Secret Service hires Dave to stand in for him. Unfortunately, Mitchell suffers a severe stroke whilst having sex with one of his aides, and Dave finds himself stuck in the role indefinitely. The corrupt and manipulative Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander, plans to use Dave to elevate himself to the White House - but unfortunately, he doesn't count on Dave enjoying himself in office, using his luck to make the country a better place, and falling in love with the beautiful First Lady...
Keywords: affair, airforce-one, barber, bicycle, body-double, bodyguard, boss-secretary-romance, budget, cabinet-meeting, campaign-headquarters
In a country where anybody can become President, anybody just did
Dave Kovic was an ordinary guy who was asked to impersonate the President. When they gave him a chance to make the country better...he did.
[singing in the shower]::Dave: Hail to the chief / He's the one we all say "Hail" to. / We all say "Hail" / 'Cause he keeps himself so clean! / He's got the power, / That's why he's in the shower...
Bob Alexander: I'm going to kill him.::Alan Reed: You can't kill a President.::Bob Alexander: He's not a President. He's an ordinary person. I can kill an ordinary person.::Alan Reed: Bob!::Bob Alexander: I can kill a hundred ordinary people!
Ellen Mitchell: Why couldn't you die from a stroke like everyone else?
Dave Kovic: She's great. She's really exotic! She's a princess! She's Polynesian - well, half Polynesian, and half American. She's... Amnesian.
Dave: I don't want to tell some eight-year-old kid he's gotta sleep in the street because we want people to feel better about their *car*. Do *you* want to tell them that?::Secretary of Commerce: [quietly] No sir. [sits back in his seat and reflects] No I sure don't.
White House Tour Guide: And we're walking, and we're walking, and we're stopping.
Dave: According to the OMB, we have seventeen defense contractors who are delinquent in their contracts. Is this true, Frank?::Director of OMB: Uh, I believe so, yes.::Dave: So, even though they're late, we keep paying them on time?::Director of OMB: Well, in a sense... yeah.
Dave: The president and the first lady... what is that? How long has that been going on?::Duane: I can't say.::Dave: You mean, you don't know, or "you can't say"?::Duane: I can't say.
Dave: You know, I've always wondered about you guys. You know, about how you're trained to take a bullet for the president?::Duane: What about it?::Dave: Is that really true? I mean, would you let yourself be killed to save his life?::Duane: Certainly.::Dave: So, now that means you'd get killed for me too.
Alan Reed: Bob, at some point we're gonna have to call the Vice President.::Bob Alexander: Don't call the Vice President.::Alan Reed: What?::Bob Alexander: Just don't call him, Al.::Alan Reed: The guy's in a coma, Bob!::Bob Alexander: I don't give a shit.::Alan Reed: Bob!::Bob Alexander: This is mine, Alan. All mine. I made him, I built him. And no Boy Scout is going to come in here and take it away from me, just because he happens to be Vice President of the United States.