Sublime

In the Senate, Lyndon Johnson, at forty-six, became the youngest majority leader in Senate history, and as Robert Caro explains, was soon the Master of the Senate.39

it was not until 1913 that one of the caucus chairmen, Democrat John Worth Kern of Indiana, was generally referred to as a “Majority Leader,” although, as Floyd M. Riddick, the longtime Senate Parliamentarian, puts it, Kern still lacked “any official party designation other than caucus chairman.”

Gould did not take a title, but had a seat on the executive committee and had four additional board seats, which he filled with his brokers.

The unanimous consent agreements were a culmination of all the powers that Lyndon Johnson had created over scheduling, over the content of bills, over the managing of bills, over committee assignments. The agreements were made possible—senators had no choice but to accept them—because of the combining of these internal powers with the powers he bro

during his first eighteen months in office Bolsonaro had made little progress in winning approval for new legislation. His one big achievement was the approval in 2019 of an extensive reform of pensions that had been piloted through Congress by Maia, in spite of the president’s lack of interest and the open opposition of many of his hardline suppor