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:
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seems as absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”
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“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing ... I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”
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