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The '''Wyoming Senate''' is the [[upper house]] of the [[Wyoming Legislature|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, Wyoming|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 house]]s of [[State legislature (United States)|state]] and territorial legislatures and the federal [[U.S. Senate]], the Wyoming Senate can confirm or reject [[Governor of Wyoming|gubernatorial]] appointments to the state [[Cabinet (government)|cabinet]], commissions, boards, or justices to the [[Wyoming Supreme Court]].
==Composition of the Senate==
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===Leadership===
[[Wyoming]], along with [[Arizona]], [[Maine]], and [[Oregon]], is one of the four [[U.S. state]]s to have abolished the Office of the [[Lieutenant Governor]], a position which for most [[upper house]]s of [[State legislature (United States)|state legislatures]] and indeed for the [[U.S. Congress]] (with the [[Vice President of the United States|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 [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] Jim Anderson of District 2 ([[Glenrock, Wyoming|Glenrock]]).
{| class=wikitable
! Position !! Name !! Party
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| [[President of the Senate]] || [[Jim Anderson (American politician)|Jim Anderson]] || {{Party shading/Republican}} | [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
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| [[Majority leader|Majority Leader]] || [[Tony Ross (politician)|Tony Ross]] || {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
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| Senate Vice President || [[Phil Nicholas]] || {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
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| [[Minority leader|Minority Leader]] || [[John Hastert]] || {{Party shading/Democratic}} | [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
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| [[Whip (politics)|Minority Whip]] || [[Marty Martin]] || {{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
|}
===Members of the Wyoming Senate===
{| class="wikitable"
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! District
! Representative
! Party
! Residence
! Counties Represented
|-
|-
| 1
| [[Ogden Driskill]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Devils Tower, Wyoming|Devils Tower]]
| [[Converse County, Wyoming| Converse]], [[Crook County, Wyoming|Crook]], [[Goshen County, Wyoming|Goshen]], [[Niobrara County, Wyoming|Niobrara]], [[Weston County, Wyoming|Weston]]
|-
| 2
| [[Jim Anderson (American politician)|Jim Anderson]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Glenrock, Wyoming|Glenrock]]
| Converse, [[Platte County, Wyoming|Platte]]
|-
| 3
| [[Curt Meier]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[LaGrange, Wyoming|LaGrange]]
| Goshen, Platte
|-
| 4
| [[Tony Ross (politician)|Tony Ross]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Cheyenne, Wyoming|Cheyenne]]
| [[Laramie County, Wyoming|Laramie]]
|-
| 5
| [[Mike Hunnicutt]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| Cheyenne
| Laramie
|-
| 6
| [[Fred Emerich]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| Cheyenne
| Laramie
|-
| 7
| [[Leslie Nutting]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| Cheyenne
| Laramie
|-
| 8
| [[Floyd Esquibel]]
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
| Cheyenne
| Laramie
|-
| 9
| [[Chris Rothfuss]]
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
| [[Laramie, Wyoming|Laramie]]
| [[Albany County, Wyoming|Albany]]
|-
| 10
| [[Phil Nicholas]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| Laramie
| Albany
|-
| 11
| [[Larry S. Hicks]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Baggs, Wyoming|Baggs]]
| Albany, [[Carbon County, Wyoming|Carbon]]
|-
| 12
| [[Marty Martin]]
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
| [[Superior, Wyoming|Superior]]
| [[Fremont County, Wyoming|Fremont]], [[Sweetwater County, Wyoming|Sweetwater]]
|-
| 13
| [[John Hastert (Wyoming politician)|John Hastert]]
| {{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic
| [[Green River, Wyoming|Green River]]
| Sweetwater
|-
| 14
| [[Stan Cooper]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Kemmerer, Wyoming|Kemmerer]]
| [[Lincoln County, Wyoming|Lincoln]], [[Sublette County, Wyoming|Sublette]], Sweetwater, [[Uinta County, Wyoming|Uinta]]
|-
| 15
| [[Paul Barnard]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Evanston, Wyoming|Evanston]]
| Uinta
|-
| 16
| [[Dan Dockstader]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Afton, Wyoming|Afton]]
| Lincoln, Sublette, [[Teton County, Wyoming|Teton]]
|-
| 17
| [[Leland Christensen]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Alta, Wyoming|Alta]]
| Fremont, Teton
|-
| 18
| [[Henry H. R. "Hank" Coe]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Cody, Wyoming|Cody]]
| [[Park County, Wyoming|Park]]
|-
| 19
| [[R. Ray Peterson]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Cowley, Wyoming|Cowley]]
| [[Big Horn County, Wyoming|Big Horn]], Park
|-
| 20
| [[Gerald Geis]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Worland, Wyoming|Worland]]
| Big Horn, [[Hot Springs County, Wyoming|Hot Springs]], Park, [[Washakie County, Wyoming|Washakie]]
|-
| 21
| [[Bruce Burns]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Sheridan, Wyoming|Sheridan]]
| [[Sheridan County, Wyoming|Sheridan]]
|-
| 22
| [[John Schiffer]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Kaycee, Wyoming|Kaycee]]
| Sheridan, [[Johnson County, Wyoming|Johnson]]
|-
| 23
| [[John Hines]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Gillette, Wyoming|Gillette]]
| [[Campbell County, Wyoming|Campbell]]
|-
| 24
| [[Michael Von Flatern]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| Gillette
| Campbell
|-
| 25
| [[Cale Case]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Lander, Wyoming|Lander]]
| [[Fremont County, Wyoming|Fremont]]
|-
| 26
| [[Eli Bebout]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Riverton, Wyoming|Riverton]]
| [[Fremont County, Wyoming|Fremont]]
|-
| 27
| [[Bill Landen]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| [[Casper, Wyoming|Casper]]
| [[Natrona County, Wyoming|Natrona]]
|-
| 28
| [[Kit Jennings]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| Casper
| Natrona
|-
| 29
| [[Drew Perkins]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| Casper
| Natrona
|-
| 30
| [[Charles Scott]]
| {{Party shading/Republican}} | Republican
| Casper
| Natrona
|}
==See also==
*[[Wyoming State Capitol]]
*[[Wyoming Legislature|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&map=1 Map of Senate Districts]
*[http://www.vote-smart.org/official_state_legislator.php?type=office&state_id=WY&criteria=upper Project Vote Smart - State Senate of Wyoming]
*[http://wyominglibertyindex.info/ The Wyoming Liberty Index]
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