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David Hann

Following the loss of the Republican majority in the 2012 election, Hann was elected by his caucus to serve as minority leader during the 2013–2014 legislative session.

Director of Floor Operations

Director of Floor Operations is the title of two staff members in the United States House of Representatives, with the Majority Director in the Speaker's office and the Minority Director in the Minority Leader's or Minority Whip's office.

Politics of Colorado

The Senate is currently composed of 18 Democrats and 17 Republicans, and is led by President of the Senate, Morgan Carroll, Majority Leader Rollie Heath, and Minority Leader Bill Cadman.


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1968 Republican National Convention

House Minority Leader Gerald Ford proposed New York City Mayor John Lindsay for Vice President but Nixon turned to another moderate, Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew, who placed Nixon's name in nomination at the convention.

American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

The passage of the bill came after days of negotiations between Senate leaders and the Obama administration, with the final agreement being attributed to talks between Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Beachwood High School

Armond Budish, Ohio House Minority Leader and former Speaker of the House.

Bill Samuels

The effort is bipartisan, with Bill, an active Democrat, teaming up with Republican Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and Professor Gerald Benjamin from SUNY New Paltz.

Bob Michel Bridge

The Bob Michel Bridge is named after former Congressman Robert H. Michel, a Peoria-area Republican who served as a Congressman from 1956 to 1995 and as House Minority Leader from 1981 until his retirement.

Bradley Jones

Bradley Jones, Jr. (born 1965), minority leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Brian Kolb

Kolb had been named as a leading contender to challenge first-term Democrat Eric Massa (who eventually retired before seeking re-election) for the United States House of Representatives seat representing New York's 29th congressional district in 2010; however, he declined to seek the seat after becoming minority leader.

BRISPEC sting operation

In addition to Carpenter, three members of the state legislature also spent jail time: Pat Nolan, who was the minority leader at the time of the raid, as well as State Senator Joseph Montoya and Assemblymember Frank Hill.

C. Robert Sarcone

In 1977, Sarcone sought the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey, finishing third in a field of four candidates, behind State Senator Raymond Bateman and Assembly Minority Leader Thomas Kean.

Charles Nesbitt

Charles H. Nesbitt, former Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly

Colorado House career of Douglas Bruce

Republican Minority Leader Mike May issued a formal apology to the photographer, and state Republican chairman Dick Wadhams "strongly denounced" Bruce's actions.

Council of Conservative Citizens

Similarly, former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt also attended an event of the organization's St. Louis predecessor the "Metro-South Citizens Council" shortly before the name change in the mid-1980s.

George E. Nowotny

In 1967, Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives Sterling R. Cockrill of Little Rock appointed Nowotny the first ever Minority Leader of the state House because Nowotny's name was the first alphabetically among the three Republican House members.

Hildenbrand

Dave Hildenbrand, Assistant minority leader of the Michigan Senate

Iowa General Assembly

Partisan House leadership includes Majority Leader Linda Upmeyer (R), and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (D).

Partisan Senate leadership includes Majority Leader Michael Gronstal (D), and Minority Leader Bill Dix (R).

James Galante

In 2007, Former Connecticut State Senate Minority Leader Louis DeLuca pled guilty to misdemeanor charges in connection with Galante.

James Philip

In June 1984, Philip, then the Republican minority leader of the Illinois House of Representatives, helped push through legislation authorizing the construction of a tollway, Interstate 355, then referred to as simply the DuPage Tollway.

Jennifer Mann

In 2003, the political website PoliticsPA named her as a possible successor to House Minority Leader Bill DeWeese.

Job 600

Prior to the completion of the project, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, the minority leader in parliament, proposed the renaming of the main Job 600 building.

José Ronaldo Jarabo

Currently, he is an advisor to Puerto Rico Senate Minority Leader José Luis Dalmau and his expertise as a political analyst is tapped by local news media.

Keith R. McCall

In 2003, the political website PoliticsPA named him as a possible successor to House Minority Leader Bill DeWeese.

Leila Nadya Sadat

She is known for her work in Public International Law and human rights, and from 2001-2003 she served as a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (she was nominated by then Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt and appointed by Congress).

Majority Leader of the New York State Senate

On June 8, 2009, Democrats Hiram Monserrate and Pedro Espada, Jr., joined the 30 Republican members of the State Senate to attempt to issue a motion to replace current Majority Leader Malcolm Smith with Minority Leader Dean Skelos.

Margaret Anderson Kelliher

In June 2006, she was selected by her caucus to succeed Rep. Matt Entenza as Minority Leader, assuming the position after the legislative session came to a close.

Max Tyler

In January 2011, Tyler was assigned by Minority Leader Sal Pace to serve on the House Committee on Transportation and the House Committee on Economic and Business Development (both renamed by the new Republican majority).

Minority Floor Leader of the House of Representatives of the Philippines

The Minority leader of the House of Representatives of the Philippines (also called as the House of Representatives Minority Floor Leader) is the leader elected by the minority bloc of the House of Representatives of the Philippines that serves as their official leader in the body.

The second placer in the election for the speakership is usually named as the minority leader.

New York Comptroller election, 2002

New York City Comptroller Alan Hevesi defeated former Assembly Minority Leader John Faso.

Newport, Maine

Joshua Tardy, Minority Leader, Maine House of Representative (2006-2010)

Paul Hays

Hays joined the House in 1966 and became Republican reading clerk in 1988 at the nomination of Minority Leader Robert H. Michel of Illinois.

Ralph E. Quattrociocchi

In 1988, Quattrociocchi was swept up in Robert M. Morgenthau's investigation of Senate Minority Leader Manfred Ohrenstein and the alleged misuse of state monies to fund the 1986 campaigns of several state Senators.

Robert Drinan

On May 10, 2006, Drinan was presented the Distinguished Service Award by then Speaker Dennis Hastert and then Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on behalf of the House of Representatives.

Stennett

Clint Stennett (1956–2010), former minority leader of the Idaho State Senate

United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013

Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner and the Senate Republican minority leader, Mitch McConnell as well as other Republicans argued that the debt ceiling should not be raised unless spending is cut by an amount equal to or greater than the debt ceiling increase.

William Musto

After three years in the assembly working alongside Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague, Musto allied himself with the John V. Kenny Victory Ticket in 1949, and by 1953 became the Democratic minority leader of the state assembly.

Willie Bosket

Governor Hugh Carey had opposed efforts by his opponent in that year's gubernatorial election, State Assembly Minority Leader Perry Duryea, to have juveniles tried as adults for certain crimes.

WSKN

The programming included a weekly political debate panel with former Senate President Kenneth McClintock, Senate PDP Minority Leader Jose Luis Dalmau and Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano (MINH) leader, Dr. Hector Pesquera, and the "Luis Penchi Entrevista" 90-minute news interview program.