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Senate Majority Leader
The cache IS at the posted coordinates.
You can sign the log anytime, but to claim a find, you need to complete the following challenge:
Welcome to Congress! Can you earn enough votes to be selected Senate Majority Leader?
BASIC REQUIREMENTS: Earn 51 Senate Votes to win Majority Leadership
At least 1 Traditional Cache Find in a State = That State's Senior Vote.
At least 1 Non-Traditional Cache Find in a State = That State's Junior Vote.
Every state has 2 US Senators. The senator in each U.S. state with the longer time in office is known as the senior senator; the other is the junior senator. This convention has no official standing, though seniority confers several benefits, including preference in the choice of committee assignments and physical offices. For the purposes of this challenge, Traditional Caches are considered Senior, while all other cache types (except Lab caches) will be considered Junior. If you find a Traditional cache in a state, then you will win the vote of its Senior Senator. If you find another cache type in a state, you will win the vote of its Junior Senator. You win the role of Senate Majority Leader when you have won at least 51 votes. Since the Vice President breaks any ties in the US Senate, we've added the District of Columbia as a bonus region for a total of 101 possible votes. While not required of this challenge, the Senate does require its members to be at least 30 years old, so when you claim your Majority Leadership, let us know which state you represent (must have at least 30 total finds in that state)!
Party leadership emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when both party conferences in the Senate elected leaders to speak for their members, coordinate action on the Senate floor, and work with the executive branch on policy priorities when in the same party as the president. To address their members' political and policy goals, the parties created steering committees, campaign committees, and policy committees. By the 21st century, senators of both party conferences granted their leaders a great deal of control over the Senate's agenda.
With each new Congress, the Democratic and Republican Conferences elect one of their members to serve as party leader. Depending on which party is in power, one party leader serves as majority leader and the other as minority leader. Both party leaders, also called floor leaders, serve as the spokesperson for their party’s positions on the issues and coordinate their respective legislative strategies.
Unlike the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, the position of party floor leader is not included in the Constitution. It evolved gradually in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The position developed separately within each of the major party conferences, with the conference chairs gradually assuming the functions associated with modern day floor leaders well before creation of the title itself. By the 1910s, both parties were electing conference chairs who acted as floor leaders, and by the 1920s, these leaders were exercising the full array of responsibilities associated with modern floor leadership.
You can check your qualifications or track your progress using the checker here:
As of publication, I qualified as Speaker of the House but after some recent travel I've added a few points:
The Great State of California with 82 of a possible 101 votes.
That's 48 Senior Senators, and 34 Junior Senators