Nancy Pelosi
House Democrats have elected Nancy Pelosi as Minority Leader and Steny Hoyer as Minority Whip for the 112th Congress (2011-2012, give or take a few days).
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was elected US House of Representatives minority leader for the 113th Congress, in January 2013.
Along party lines, the Senate has the Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader who represent the majority and minority party in the Senate respectively. Each of these Leaders has assistants called Whips. The House of Representatives has the Speaker of the House who is elected by that majority party. The second in command is the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. There is also the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives. Both of these people have Majority Whips and Minority Whips as their assistants, respectively.
Leader of the Opposition is the House Minority leader. Nancy Pelosi serves as the House Minority Leader in 2011.
In each House, the Party with the most members is called the majority party. The other is the minority party. Each party in both houses elects leaders, who are called the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader, respectively, for each House. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer House minority leader John Boehner Senate majority leader Harry Reid Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell The two Houses of Congress as a whole are lead by the President of the Senate, who is the Vice-President of the United States, and by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who is elected by the Members of the House of Representatives. As a practical matter the Speaker is elected by the members of the Majority Party.
The 'leader' of the US House of Representatives is known as the Speaker of the House. The Speaker is elected by the Party (Democrat or Republican) that controls the most seats in the House, known as the majority party. The Speaker is also therefore, the majority leader. The Party with fewer seats in the House than the other Party is known as the minority party, and the minority party elects its own leader, known as the minority leader. The current Speaker and majority leader is John Boehner, a Republican.
Yes, the leaders of the House of Representatives are members of Congress. To be a member of the House of Representatives you have to be elected. The leadership of the House, including the Majority and Minority leaders, is selected by the members of the House.
The Speaker of the House is the leader of the House of Representatives. Each party has a leader, the party in the minority has a minority leader, and the party in the majority has a majority leader who is also speaker of the house.
The Speaker of the House is the leader of the House of Representatives. As of June 2014, it is Speaker John Boehner.
The leader of the US House of Representatives is called the Speaker of the House. As of January 2011, the Speaker is Republican John Boehner of Ohio. The Speaker is elected by the members of the House and historically will be chosen from the majority party in the House. The equivalent position for the opposition party is the Minority Leader.
The leader of the party with the second most members in Congress is called the Senate Minority leader for the Senate and House Minority Leader in the House of Representatives. There may be third party members with just a few members and they might have a leader but that leader is not referred to as the Minority Leader of that House of Congress.
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