- Wyoming Senate
The Wyoming Senate is the
upper house of the Wyoming State Legislature. There are 30 Senators in the Senate, representing an equal amount of constituencies acrossWyoming , each with a population of at least 17,000. The Senate meets at theWyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne.Members of the Senate serve four year terms without
term limits . Term limits were declared unconstitutional by theWyoming Supreme Court in2004 , overturning a decade-old law that had restricted Senators to three terms (twelve years).Like other
upper house s of state and territorial legislatures and the federalU.S. Senate , the Wyoming Senate can confirm or reject gubernatorial appointments to the statecabinet , commissions, boards, or justices to theWyoming Supreme Court .Leadership
Wyoming , along withArizona ,Maine , andOregon , is one of the fourU.S. state s to have abolished the Office of theLieutenant Governor , a position which for mostupper house s of state legislatures and indeed for theU.S. Congress (with the Vice President) is the head of the legislative body. Instead, a separate position of Senate President is in place, removed from the Wyomingexecutive branch .The current Senate President is Republican
John Schiffer of District 22 (Kaycee).Make-up of the Senate
;Members
ee also
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Wyoming State Capitol
*Wyoming State Legislature
*Wyoming House of Representatives External links
* [http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/members/sen.htm Wyoming Senate]
* [http://legisweb.state.wy.us/leg2/wyoming/map.asp?state=WY&scope=&command=find&name=_self&cat=1&
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* [http://www.vote-smart.org/official_state_legislator.php?type=office&state_id=WY&criteria=upper Project Vote Smart - State Senate of Wyoming]
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