I thought the President of the Senate was the VP.
House Speaker, minority leader and Senate majority leader and minority leader are chosen by their respective parties members in the chamber.
The Speaker is elected by the House. (See Article 1 Section 2 of the Constitution.) Technically, the House could elect someone who was not a Member of Congress as the speaker, but has never done so.
The Vice President is the president of the Senate according to the Constitution. The President Pro Tempore is mandated by Article 1 Section 3 and is elected by the Senate. By Senate Tradition, it is typically the longest serving member of the Majority party who is elected to this position.
House Rule X governs the selection of Committee Chairs. They are selected by a vote of the House.
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The Senate President is chosen by the Electoral College. The Vice President is the President of the Senate.
There’s the president of the senate (the vice-president of the United States) and the president pro-tempore, who is the official head of the body in the absence of the president (usually the longest serving member of the majority party).
Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives are elected by their respective parties in a closed-door caucus by secret ballot and are also known as floor leaders. [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives
Handicapping a Durbin-Schumer face-off would be tough, even for members of the Senate. They vote for their leader by secret ballot. Larry Sabato, who heads the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, says the senators often go into the balloting with a majority pledged to support them but lose anyhow. “Politicians are very good at fibbing to people’s faces,” Sabato explains. “The logical thing to do is to tell both candidates for majority leader that you’re for them.”
However, if it’s done by secret ballot, how did we know that 17 democrats did not vote for Pelosi, including Gabby Giffords??? Something whizzed by that said Andrea Mitchell reported on it?
Do you seriously need a thread for this when all you need do is Google your questions? Well anyway, the Speaker of the House is elected by the members of the entire House. The party holding the majority at the time has the most votes, so their favorite candidate wins. Like all elections, candidates are self-selected. They throw their metaphoric hat in the ring, and campaign for the position. They win if they can convince a majority of their side (majority party) to vote for them.
The process is the same in the Senate for Majority Leader (and, by the way, other leadership positions).
The president of the Senate is an entirely different matter. It is a constitutional function of the Vice President of the United States. It is largely ceremonial.