Talk:Pennsylvania State Senate

House and Senate Succession Boxes
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 * PA House Member


 * PA Senate Member

--RedShiftPA (talk) 19:42, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Scarnati/Knoll
With the passing of CBK, Scarnati is automatically the new Lt. Gov (upon his swearing-in which will be coming soon, I presume). However, the PA Constitution does not require that he resign from his senate seat, unlike the US Constitution which prohibits someone from serving both in the Executive and Legislative branch. Jubelirer faced the same issue when Ridge left. What does this mean? Scarnati can still vote in the senate as a senator AND cast a tie-breaking vote as Lt. Gov. (Interesting note: theoretically, he can draw both salaries, but Jubelirer notably did not). This is a really stupid result that needs to be explained with some refs. Unfortunately, I can't do it right now, but maybe someone can.--HoboJones (talk) 05:16, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Graphical Representation of Seats
The chart as of March 22, 2013, depicts 20 blue dots, 1 black dot, and 29 red dots. However, the current makeup of the PA State Senate is 23 Democratic Senators and 27 Repblicans. Should this chart not reflect that with 23 blue dots and 27 red dots? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.168.113.248 (talk) 07:43, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Current composition, "Begin" number
If there are 50 seats, and the chamber began the current session with 30 Republicans and 19 Democrats, why were there 0 vacancies? One of these numbers is incorrect. ~GMH talk to me 17:30, 5 August 2015 (UTC)