Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> At 06:42 AM Friday 6/8/2007, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
>> Ronn! Blankenship quoted:
>>> Tempers flare, fist flies on floor of Alabama Senate
>>>
>> There is a _Senate_ for Alabama? Two legislative bodies
>> for each state?
>>
>> Alberto Monteiro (I hope br politicians never hear about this...)
>
>
>
> Every state in the USA except iirc Nebraska has a bicameral
> legislature modeled upon the national one. Again iirc Nebraska calls
> its unicameral legislative body the state Senate.
>
> (I say "iirc" because that's what I remember learning some years
> ago. I suppose they could have changed since then without informing me . . .
> )
Wikipedia says that every state but Nebraska has a bicameral
legislature, that the Nebraska one is just called the Legislature, but
that the elected officials call themselves "senators".
Julia
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