Rep. DeLAY: I will temporarily step aside as floor leader in order to win exoneration from these baseless charges.
Tiaria Griffin missed a 3 for Georgia and Cal's Brittany Boyd was fouled driving to the rim by James, her fifth foul, leaving Georgia without its floor leader.
The row has echoes of the debate sparked last October when the Christian Democrat parliamentary floor leader Friedrich Merz said that foreigners in Germany should be expected to show allegiance to the "dominant culture", the Frankfurter Allgemeine daily said.
Speaking on the Senate floor Tuesday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also said the White House should have spoken up sooner.
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell gave 107 floor speeches on health care, and 25 speeches on why we shouldn't close the prison camp at Guantanamo.
During floor debate earlier this month, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell reiterated the view of many of his colleagues that Halligan met the "extraordinary circumstances" standard, under a 2005 Senate agreement that allowed filibusters of judicial nominees only in extreme cases.
"We have worked and worked and we can spend all night tonight, tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday, and we're not going to get to the finish line, " Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor before the vote.
Once Byrd received the oath of office from Reid, he assumed the president's chair and gave the floor to Daschle who gave his first speech as majority leader.
Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, to the post of majority leader with the ability to bring bills to the floor.
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On Jan. 13, six Republican senators sent Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a letter asking him to delay floor action until concerns are resolved.
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Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, as he has indicated, a Democrat will take the post of majority leader with the ability to bring bills to the floor.
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When the new majority leader addressed his colleagues, 39 senators were on the floor in their seats.
Majority Leader Reid blocked the amendment from ever getting to the Senate floor.
After a meeting with President Bush Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says he is planning to push for a floor vote on John Bolton as U.N. ambassador.
So after weeks of backroom dealing to roundup the votes, it was with some relief that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was finally able to proclaim victory on the floor yesterday.
"It might sound ridiculous, but people do pull muscles and strain things by mopping the floor, because it is intense, " says Jay Roper, a leader of the team of volleyball moppers from Sheffield.
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This week, the Senate majority leader hopes to bring some kind of an immigration bill to the floor in the Senate, but we don't know that they really have a package deal yet.
The Friars missed all six of their attempts from long range and were 8 of 27 (29.6 percent) from the floor in the first half as Cotton, the Big East's scoring leader at 20.4 points per game, attempted just three shots and scored only two points.
It has been repackaged to qualify for a Senate rule that allows Majority Leader Harry Reid to bypass committee debate and bring it straight to the floor.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) pulled the measure from the floor Thursday night because it fell 15 votes short of the number needed to move it on to final passage.
Sometimes it's blatant -- like the time current House Minority Leader John Boehner handed out checks from big tobacco companies to lawmakers on the floor of the House of Representatives.
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At First Minister's Questions, the Plaid leader Leanne Wood called on the First Minister to fight for a "Barnett floor" a guaranteed level of expenditure compared to England, below which the Welsh allocation will never fall.
Mr. STEVE ELLIS (Vice President, Taxpayers for Common Sense): It really came down to Majority Leader Frist and whether he was going to schedule time for those bills on the floor.
Now it's time for Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to override Mr. Dodd's petty obstructionism and allow a hearing and floor vote on his confirmation.
Whatever the reason, Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist brought John Bolton's controversial bid to be UN ambassador to the Senate floor this afternoon, hoping it would not be stopped by a filibuster and that it would be voted on by the end of this week.
The accommodation to moderates, made primarily by Senate leader Dole, did not go unnoticed by his presidential rival, who hovers nearby on the Senate floor.
Cantor is the House Majority Leader, which means that he is responsible for the mundane business of managing the schedule, the House floor, and committees, where legislation is generally written.
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