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13-588: The current President of Council is Blaine Griffin. The council Majority Leader is Kerry McCormack, and the Majority Whip is Jasmin Santana . Patricia Britt serves as the Clerk of Council. The structure and membership of city council have fluctuated throughout Cleveland's history . Established in 1802, it initially included three trustees, and when Cleveland was incorporated as a city in 1836, it had three aldermen . After

26-476: A charter amendment linking the size of City Council to the city's population. City Council approved a redistricting plan in March 2009, reducing the number of wards to 19 at the start of the 2010–2013 term. Thereafter, the number of wards was tied to the population identified in the decennial United States Census . Population decreases identified in the 2010 Census resulted in the elimination of two wards, reducing

39-401: A large council elected by ward considered it more democratic, since it made councilmen answerable to their constituents." The final charter adopted in 1913 introduced a system with 26 wards each represented by a single council member. Due to the city's continued expansion, council grew to 33 members by 1923, making it "second in size only to Chicago 's 50-member council ." In the 1920s, during

52-640: The United States Senate , the current majority leader is Chuck Schumer (D-NY). John Thune (R-SD) is expected to become the Majority Leader when the 119th Congress is sworn in on January 3rd, 2025. In the House of Representatives the majority leader's presence and power often depends on the session. In some sessions, the majority leader takes precedence over the speaker as House leader and legislative party leader either by force (which usually occurs when

65-515: The presidential system ), the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body. In the federal Congress of the United States , the roles of the House majority leader and the Senate majority leader differ slightly. At the state level, the majority leader of a given state legislative chamber usually performs a similar role to that of their federal counterpart. In the Senate ,

78-491: The vice president of the United States is officially the president of the Senate and the president pro tempore serves as the president of the Senate in the absence of the vice president. However, in reality, the vice president seldom enters the Senate, let alone directly presides over the chamber, unless a tied vote is expected , and the president pro tempore has become a ceremonial role deprived of any leadership ability. Thus,

91-558: The annexation of Ohio City in 1854, "the revised city council expanded to 11 wards, with 2 trustees elected from each," or 22 representatives in total. By 1885, the city's legislature had grown to 50 representatives. Cleveland's 1892 Federal Plan, which strengthened the powers of the mayor, reduced the size of council to 20 members, but after the plan was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1902, council membership grew again to 32. After gaining municipal home rule from

104-424: The brief council–manager experiment, the number of council members was reduced to 25. When the mayor–council system was restored in 1931, the city had 33 council members again. In November 1981, as part of Mayor George Voinovich 's effort to streamline city government, Cleveland voters approved reducing council to 21 members. In November 2008 , during the tenure of Mayor Frank G. Jackson , Cleveland voters passed

117-403: The majority leader is seen as the de facto leader of the Senate, especially in modern times, and thus, in accordance with Senate rules, the presiding officer of the day gives the majority leader priority in obtaining recognition to speak on the floor of the Senate and they determine which bills get voted on. The majority leader is seen as the chief spokesperson for their party in the Senate. In

130-577: The number of members to 17. In March 2013, City Council approved new ward boundaries that went into effect in January 2014. Council voted to amend the boundaries on April 17, 2013. The members of Cleveland City Council - all from the Democratic Party - are listed below in the order of the ward they serve. As of 2024, City Council has 11 standing committees . Majority leader In U.S. politics (as well as in some other countries utilizing

143-538: The speaker and the minority leader) are the only members of the House that can speak on the floor for an unlimited amount of time and cannot be interrupted by the chair. In the United States House of Representatives , the current majority leader is Steve Scalise from Louisana's 1st District. This United States government–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vice President of

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156-415: The speaker of the House is unpopular) or because the speaker of the House voluntarily surrenders power to the majority leader. In most sessions, the speaker of the House takes precedence as house leader and party leader, with the majority leader being irrelevant and largely powerless outside the fact they might be speaker of the House one day. Except, of course, for the fact that the majority leader (as well as

169-486: The state in 1912, Cleveland's city government, led by Mayor Newton D. Baker , drafted a new municipal charter . In developing the charter, the size of council proved to be the most contentious issue. According to the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History , "those advocating a small council elected at large maintained that it would be more efficient, less expensive and would eliminate local machine corruption. Those who favored

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