Leadership Positions
Shafer has been nominated by the Senate Republican Caucus to serve as the 68th President Pro Tempore of the Georgia State Senate. He will take office on the 1st day of the 2013 Legislative Session. Prior to his nomination as President Pro Tempore, Shafer served as Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Caucus.
Shafer served as chairman of the Senate Science and Technology Committee in the early 2000s and as chairman of the Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee from 2006. He has stated that he will give up his committee chairmanship when he takes office as President Pro Tempore.
His other current committee assignments include: Senate Insurance and Labor Committee, Senate Finance Committee, Senate Rules Committee, Senate Health and Human Services Committee and Senate Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee.
Shafer served as an administration floor leader for Governor Sonny Perdue.
Shafer was an early supporter of Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle and played a prominent role in his 2006 campaign. He served on Cagle's kitchen cabinet as a member of the Senate Committee on Assignments. In 2011, when the Senate adopted new Senate Rules transferring the power of the Lieutenant Governor to the Senate Committee on Assignments, Shafer remained a member of the Committee by virtue of being Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Caucus. Shafer's nomination as President Pro Tempore of the Senate would make him chairman of the Committee on Assignments.
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