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Iowa's 15th Senate District
The 15th District of the Iowa Senate is located in southern Iowa, and is currently composed of Jasper County, Iowa, Jasper and Polk County, Iowa, Polk Counties. Current elected officials Zach Nunn is the senator currently representing the 15th District. The area of the 15th District contains two Iowa House of Representatives districts: *The Iowa House of Representatives, District 29, 29th District (represented by Wes Breckenridge) *The Iowa House of Representatives, District 30, 30th District (represented by Brian Lohse) The district is also located in Iowa's 2nd congressional district, which is represented by U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Iowa's 3rd congressional district, which is represented by Cindy Axne. Past senators The district has previously been represented by: *Theodore Perry *Arthur Gratias, 1983–1986 *Kenneth D. Scott, 1987–1990 *Allen Borlaug, 1991–1998 *Betty Soukup, 1999–2002 *Robert Dvorsky, 2003–2012 *Dennis Black, 2013–2014 *C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper House
An upper house is one of two Debate chamber, chambers of a bicameralism, bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house.''Bicameralism'' (1997) by George Tsebelis The house formally designated as the upper house is usually smaller and often has more restricted power than the lower house. A legislature composed of only one house (and which therefore has neither an upper house nor a lower house) is described as Unicameralism, unicameral. Definite specific characteristics An upper house is usually different from the lower house in at least one of the following respects (though they vary among jurisdictions): Powers: *In a parliamentary system, it often has much less power than the lower house. Therefore, in certain countries the upper house **votes on only limited legislative matters, such as constitutional amendments, **cannot initiate most kinds of legislation, especially those pertaining to supply/money, fiscal policy **cannot vote a motion of no confidence again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
