Submitted by christian on Tue, 08/09/2016 - 11:39
There are 100 Senators in Congress. Of those, 72 have held their seat for longer than 6 years. 62 Senators are over the age of 60, with 5 in their 80s. The “Majority Leader” and “Assistant Majority Leader” are the two persons who decide what laws are presented in the Senate for a vote. They are elected by the Senate itself, and typically the party who has the most Senate seats selects the Senators in their party with the longest tenure. Currently, the “Majority Leader” is Republican Mitch McConnell who has been a Senator for the last 31 years. The “Asst.
