[Petronski]

The House Minority Whip is a member of the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives . . .

The Senate has a Majority Whip and a Minority Whip too.

[Lucky9teen]

True

The Assistant Majority and Minority Leaders of the United States Senate (commonly called Senate Majority and Minority Whips) are the second-ranking members of their parties in the United States Senate.

The main function of the Majority and Minority Whips is to gather votes on major issues. Because he or she is the second ranking member of the Senate, if there is no floor leader present, the whip may become acting floor leader.

Before 1969, the official titles were Majority Whip and Minority Whip.

The current Assistant Majority Leader is Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

The current Assistant Minority Leader is Democrat Richard Durbin of Illinois.

[edit] List of assistant leaders

(Names in Bold indicate Majority)

Congress(es)	Dates	Democratic Whip	State	Republican Whip	State
63rd	1913-1915	J. Hamilton Lewis	Illinois	None.	None.
64th	1915			James Wadsworth, Jr.	New York
64th-65th	1915-1919			Charles Curtis	Kansas
66th-68th	1919-1924	Peter Gerry	Illinois	Charles Curtis	Kansas
68th-70th	1924-1929			Wesley Jones	Washington
71st-72nd	1929-1933	Morris Sheppard	Texas	Simeon Fess	Ohio
73rd	1933-1935	J. Hamilton Lewis	Illinois	Felix Hebert	Rhode Island
74th-75th	1935-1939			None[1]
76th	1939-1941	Sherman Minton	Indiana
77th-78th	1941-1944	Lister Hill	Alabama
78th-79th	1944-1947			Kenneth Wherry	Nebraska
80th	1947-1949	Scott Lucas	Illinois	Kenneth Wherry	Nebraska
81st	1949-1951	Francis Myers	Pennsylvania	Leverett Saltonstall	Massachusetts
82nd	1951-1953	Lyndon Johnson	Texas
83rd	1953-1955	Earle Clements	Kentucky	Leverett Saltonstall	Massachusetts
84th	1955-1957	Earle Clements	Kentucky	Leverett Saltonstall	Massachusetts
85th	1957-1959	Michael Mansfield	Montana	Everett Dirksen	Illinois
86th	1959-1961			Thomas Kuchel	California
87th-88th	1961-1965	Hubert Humphrey	Minnesota
89th-90th	1965-1969	Russell Long	Louisiana
91st	1969			Hugh Scott	Pennsylvania
91st	1969-1971	Ted Kennedy	Massachusetts	Robert Griffin	Michigan
92nd-94th	1971-1977	Robert Byrd	West Virginia
95th-96th	1977-1981	Alan Cranston	California	Ted Stevens	Alaska
97th-98th	1981-1985	Alan Cranston	California	Ted Stevens	Alaska
99th	1985-1987			Alan Simpson	Wyoming
100th-101st	1987-1991	Alan Cranston	California	Alan Simpson	Wyoming
102nd-103rd	1991-1995	Wendell Ford	Kentucky
104th	1995-1996	Wendell Ford	Kentucky	Trent Lott	Mississippi
104th-105th	1996-1999			Don Nickles	Oklahoma
106th	1999-2001	Harry Reid	Nevada
107th	January 3, 2001-January 20, 2001	Harry Reid	Nevada	Don Nickles	Oklahoma
	January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001	Harry Reid	Nevada	Don Nickles	Oklahoma
	June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003	Harry Reid	Nevada	Don Nickles	Oklahoma
108th	2003-2005	Harry Reid	Nevada	Mitch McConnell	Kentucky
109th	2005-present	Richard Durbin	Illinois