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text: Majority Leader Faces Balancing Act in Senate (Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON  #8212; Leading the majority party in the Senate, a job that has been likened to herding cats, is tough enough in ordinary times. For Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), last week's Republican election triumphs paradoxically made the job tougher yet.