周二，参议院共和党重新选举南达科他州的桑恩（John Thune）领导上议院的少数党，在中期选举惨败后，未对其最高领导层名单做出任何改变。
Senate Republicans on Tuesday re-elected John Thune of South Dakota to lead them in the upper chamber’s minority, failing to make any changes to their top leadership slate after their midterm rout.
共和党人在闭门会议上，通过秘密投票支持桑恩，并支持怀俄明州参议员巴拉索（John Barrasso）担任少数党鞭；阿肯色州参议员汤姆·科顿（Tom Cotton）担任共和党会议主席；西弗吉尼亚州参议员谢莉·摩尔·卡皮托（Shelley Moore Capito）担任政策委员会主席；俄克拉荷马州参议员詹姆斯·兰克福德（James Lankford）担任共和党会议副主席。科顿宣布了上述人事任命。
Republicans met behind closed doors and, by secret ballot, endorsed Thune, as well as threw their weight behind Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., as minority whip; Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., as GOP conference chair; Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va., as policy committee chair; and Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., as GOP conference vice chair, Cotton announced.
根据科顿的宣布，俄亥俄州参议员伯尼·莫雷诺（Bernie Moreno）将成为参议院共和党筹款机构——全国共和党参议员委员会（National Republican Senatorial Committee）的新主席，接替南卡罗来纳州参议员蒂姆·斯科特（Tim Scott）。
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, will become the new chair of the Senate GOP’s fundraising arm, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, replacing Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., according to Cotton’s announcement.
“我们了解到的是美国人民想要什么，以及我们将在整个政府中坚决打击任何腐败，”莫雷诺说。“就我个人而言，我在参加初选前卖掉了所有企业和所有股票，因此永远不会有人质疑我投票的动机。所以反腐败必须落实到每一位当选官员身上。这是第一位的。”大约有八名共和党人，包括威斯康星州参议员罗恩·约翰逊（Ron Johnson）和密苏里州参议员乔什·霍利（Josh Hawley），曾呼吁推迟领导层选举。
“What we’ve learned is what the American people want, and [what] we’re going to be the absolute savages on is ending any corruption throughout all of government,” Moreno said. “Like in my particular case, I sold all my businesses sold all my stocks before I ran in a primary, so there’s never going to be anybody who questions my motivation on a vote. So the anti-corruption has got to go to every elected official. That’s number one.”About eight Republicans, including Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., had called for a delay in the leadership elections.
共和党人正试图在上周中期选举中全线惨败后重新定位，包括在大部分红州失去至少七个参议院席位。
Republicans are working to get their bearings after big defeats up and down the ballot in last week’s midterm elections, including the loss of at least seven Senate seats in largely red states.
“我们甚至没有投票，只是一致通过，”霍利谈到领导层选举时说。“我希望现在领导层决定已经做出，我们能真正为劳动人民制定议程。”在国会另一侧，众议院共和党选举俄亥俄州众议员吉姆·乔丹（Jim Jordan）为新一届国会的少数党领袖。乔丹是特朗普的盟友，目前担任众议院司法委员会主席。
“We didn’t even have a vote. It was just acclamation,” Hawley said about the leadership elections. “I hope that now that the decisions [were] made on leadership that we’ll actually have an agenda for working people.”On the other side of the Capitol, House Republicans elected Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a Trump ally and current chair of the House Judiciary Committee, as their minority leader for the new Congress.