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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 04:52 AM
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What is the difference between a senior and junior senator.
Now that Mark Udall is expected to become the Senior Senator(he is not even in office yet) after Ken Salazar is confirmed to Secretary of the Interior does that give him more power than say Kerry who is a junior?
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 04:54 AM
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1. Each state has two senators
Senior and junior only refer to the seats from each state.

Kerry's been in there, like, 30 years, but Kennedy's been in there longer, so Kerry is the junior senator.

When Kennedy leaves, if Kerry's still around, Kerry will be the senior senator.
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 04:55 AM
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2. I think it's just about which senator in a particular state has been there longest.
Kerry's a junior senator just because Teddy Kennedy has been there longer.
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tkmorris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 04:59 AM
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3. I think you are asking if the terms...
Are merely semantic, or is there any real authority and responsibility that comes from being "senior". The answer is no, there isn't.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 05:03 AM
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4. It's just semantics
Funny that Udall gets to be senior senator after less than a month in office, though.
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 10:39 PM
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5. Kerry will have far more power because, even though junior to Kennedy,
he has 24 years of seniority. He will be the Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee and a senior member on his other committees. Udall will be a Freshman Senator with 24 less years of seniority. What it means is that CO will likely have the weakest Senate delegation - that is Democratic.
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