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.
Best Answer: The Speaker is. Speaker of the House is 3rd in line for succession to the Presidency. If the majority of the House is opposite of the party of the President, the Speaker is the leader of that party. Speaker Boehner is considered the leading figure of the Republican Party since Obama is President and the leading figure of the Democratic Party.