Wyoming Senate

The Senate from Wyoming (Wyoming State Senate ) is the upper house of the Wyoming State Legislature, the legislature of the U.S. state of Wyoming.

The chamber of parliament is composed of 30 Senators representing an electoral district respectively. Each of these units includes a fixed average rate of 17,000 inhabitants. The senators are elected for four -year terms; limiting the terms of office does not exist. 2004 Wyoming Supreme Court declared the official restrictions unconstitutional and thus overturned a decades- old law limiting the tenure of senators to three terms (twelve years).

The meeting room of the Senate is located together with the House of Representatives in the Wyoming State Capitol in the capital, Cheyenne.

Tasks of the Senate

The Senate of Wyoming fall As in the upper houses of other states and territories, as well as in the U.S. Senate compared to the House of Representatives special tasks that go beyond the law. So it is up to the Senate, nominations of the Governor in his cabinet to accept or reject other offices of the executive branch and commissions and authorities.

Structure of the chamber

Wyoming is next to Arizona, Maine and Oregon is one of four U.S. states that have abolished the office of lieutenant governor. This office acts in most upper houses, as well as the U.S. House of Representatives ( with the vice president ), as head of the respective chamber of parliament. Instead, a separate Senate President in Wyoming was created executive.

Composition

Important members of the Senate

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