WASHINGTON, Nov 14 : Republican lawmakers re-elected Mitch Mc-Connell as their leader in the US Senate on Wednesday, ensuring him the powerful role of majority leader in the new Congress that begins in January.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama's Democrats, who lost control of the Senate with their crushing defeat in this month's mid-term elections, re-elected their own leader in the chamber.
McConnell, the 72-year-old senior senator from Kentucky, will take over from current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at the start of the new congressional session on January 3.     ?AFP