floor leaders
Party strategy coordinators
Floor leaders are members of a legislature designated to manage their party's activities on the chamber floor.
In the U.S.
Congress, majority and minority leaders coordinate debate, negotiate procedures, and marshal votes: The Senate floor leader announced the bill would come up for a vote Tuesday.
They serve as their party's chief strategists and spokespersons during legislative business.
- whipStrikes or aerates
- majorityOver half of total
- minoritySmaller part of whole
- speakerOne who talks
- senateLegislative governing body
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- Political Groupsfaction, Republican Party, caucus, Democratic Party, wing
floor leadersbackbenchers
Ordinary members of parliament
committee chairs · committee members · mavericks · conferees · whips
floor leaderscabinet secretaries
Heads of executive departments
governors · president · prime minister · department heads · bureaucrats
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