Name: Date:

Chapter 12.1/12.2 Guided Reading Number:

List the names of the people who hold the above positions, and their political party (D) or (R).
When does
Congress
convene?

Put the correct
term below:















(Include day and year)





The presiding officer of the House of Representatives and the acknowledged
leader of the majority party.

Title assigned by the Constitution to the Vice President.

Leader of the majority party is elected from the Senate and serves in the
Vice President's absence.

Party officers picked for their posts by their party colleagues.

Assist the floor leaders and serve as a liaison between the party's leadership
and its rank-and-file members.

An unwritten custom holds that the most important posts will be held by
those party members with the longest records of service in Congress.

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113th House Leadership
Speaker of the House



Majority Floor
Leader


Majority Whip


Minority Floor
Leader


Minority Whip


113th Senate Leadership
President of
the Senate


Majority Floor
Leader


Majority Whip


President Pro
Tempore


Minority Floor
Leader


Minority Whip


Name: Date:
Chapter 12.1/12.2 Guided Reading Number:

House Rules
Committee


Standing
Committee



Select Committee



Joint Committee



Conference
Committee