Have there been many Majority Leaders that were remembered for being

[BigmanPigman]

really good or really bad in US History? Same goes for Speakers of the House. Do future generations ever learn about extremely bad/good ones or are they mostly forgotten even though they had a huge impact on policy, etc? I can't recall ever learning of any who were responsible for shaping major fiascos or achievements for over several terms. Will McConnell and Ryan go down in history as the ones responsible for allowing harmful tax cuts, ignoring Climate Change and allowing a foreign enemy effect our elections as well as supporting a traitorous POTUS and SCOTUS?

[oberliner]

1. Tip O'Neill is the name that comes to mind

And from the history books, Henry Clay.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Newt Gingrich was a notably bad Speaker of the House.

He was disciplined for ethics violations and ended up resigning the speakership. Another Speaker, Dennis Hastert (also a GOPer), was indicted (after he left Congress) for illicitly "structuring" financial transactions as a payoff for concealing sexual abuse of boys he coached at a high school. Tip O'Neill is regarded as one of the most powerful speakers.

[Ptah]

3. Mike Mansfield

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An early supporter of Ngo Dinh Diem, Mansfield had a change of heart on the Vietnam War after a visit to Vietnam in 1962. He reported to John F. Kennedy on December 2, 1962, that US money given to Diem's government was being squandered and that the US should avoid further involvement in Vietnam. He was thus the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.

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In 1964, Mansfield, as Senate Majority Leader, filed a procedural motion to have the Civil Rights Act of 1964 discussed by the whole Senate rather than by the Judiciary Committee, which had killed similar legislation seven years earlier.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mansfield#U.S._Senator

[haele]

4. Thomas Reed back in the 1880's/1890's.

An old-school Maine Republican, he worked for with some major legislation that became the basis for much of the New Deal and Civil Rights acts - and a lot of the way the Government ran during the 20th Century was built on. The "Reed Rule", which limited the ability of the minority party to prevent the establishment of a quorum was named after him. So he is known for both good and bad effects on congress.

A lot of what he accomplished was based on his longevity as Speaker, but he was known as a major wheeler and dealer both in the House and with the Administrations he worked with.
We don't remember him now, which is a shame.

Haele

[muntrv]

5. What about Lyndon Johnson as Senate Majority Leader?

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Lyndon Johnson as Senate Majority Leader and Nancy Pelosi as Speaker and as Minority Leader