Wyoming Senate

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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 across Wyoming, each with a population of at least 17,000. The Senate meets at the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne.

Members of the Senate serve four year terms without term limits. Term limits were declared unconstitutional by the Wyoming Supreme Court in 2004, overturning a decade-old law that had restricted Senators to three terms (twelve years).

Like other upper houses of state and territorial legislatures and the federal U.S. Senate, the Wyoming Senate can confirm or reject gubernatorial appointments to the state cabinet, commissions, boards, or justices to the Wyoming Supreme Court.

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Wyoming, along with Arizona, Maine, and Oregon, is one of the four U.S. states to have abolished the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, a position which for most upper houses of state legislatures and indeed for the U.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 Wyoming executive branch.

The current Senate President is Republican John Schiffer of District 22 (Kaycee).

[edit] Make-up of the Senate

Affiliation Members
  Republican Party 23
  Democratic Party 7
 Total
 30
 Majority
 16
Members
District Representative County Party Term Up
1 Charles Townsend Crook/Weston/E Converse/Niobrara/NE Goshen Republican
2 Jim Anderson Converse/Platte Republican
3 Curt Meier Goshen/Platte Republican
4 Tony Ross Laramie Republican
5 Bob Fecht Laramie Republican
6 Wayne H. Johnson Laramie Republican
7 Kathryn Sessions Laramie Democratic
8 E. Jayne Mockler Laramie Democratic
9 Mike Massie Albany Democratic
10 Phil Nicholas Albany Republican
11 Bill Vasey Albany/Carbon Democratic
12 Rae Lynn Job Sweetwater/Fremont Democratic
13 John Hastert Sweetwater Democratic
14 Stan Cooper Lincoln/Sublette/Sweetwater/Uinta Republican
15 Ken Decaria Uinta Democratic
16 Pat Aullman Lincoln/Sublette/Teton Republican
17 Grant C. Larson Teton/Fremont Republican
18 Henry H. R. "Hank" Coe Park Republican
19 Ray Peterson Big Horn/E Park Republican
20 Gerald E. Geis S Big Horn/Hot Springs/SE Park/Washakie Republican
21 Bruce Burns Sheridan Republican
22 John Schiffer Sheridan/Johnson Republican
23 John Hines Campbell Republican
24 Michael Von Flatern Campbell Republican
25 Cale Case Fremont Republican
26 Eli Bebout Fremont Republican
27 Bill Landen Natrona Republican
28 Kit Jennings Natrona Republican
29 Drew Perkins Natrona Republican
30 Charles K. Scott Natrona Republican

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