Symptoms of significant brain atrophy include progressive cognitive impairment involving multiple cognitive functions, otherwise known as dementia, seizures and aphasia, which is the disruption in the understanding or production of language or both.
The Senate majority leader has somewhat less official power than the Speaker of the House. This is because the vice president is technically the Senate's presiding officer, a ceremonial position that calls chiefly for casting a vote in the event of a tie.
McConnell takes the reins as Senate majority leader. Three decades after arriving in the capital city as the junior senator from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell on Tuesday became the U.S. Senate's majority leader and one of the two most powerful Republicans in the nation.hree decades after arriving in the capital city as the junior senator from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell on Tuesday became the U.S. Senate's majority leader and one of the two most powerful Republicans in the nation.