Composition
Democrats hold a supermajority in the Senate.
| Affiliation | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Republican | Vacant | ||
| End of previous legislature | 35 | 5 | 40 | 0 |
| Begin | 36 | 4 | 40 | 0 |
| October 13, 2011 | 35 | 39 | 1 | |
| January 10, 2012 | 36 | 40 | 0 | |
| April 2, 2012 | 35 | 39 | 1 | |
| Latest voting share | 89.7% | 10.3% | ||
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Famous quotes containing the word composition:
“It is my PRIDE, my damn’d, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19-20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such;Mor DIE—perplexing alternative!”
—Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770)
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“The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.”
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