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Last Updated on Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:47 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:47
Nashville Post Politics points to a post by The Thicket:
Tennessee becomes the fourth legislative chamber this year to organize on a coalition basis with votes from both sides of the aisle. The other three are the Texas House, where Democrats helped to determine the majority Republican speaker, the Louisiana House in which the Democratic majority elected a Republican speaker (after 2007 elections in that state), and the Alaska Senate where the president was elected with votes from both parties. We don’t have official records of bipartisan coalitions at NCSL, but in our collective staff memories we think that two to four chambers with coalition leadership is fairly typical in any given year.
And then there’s this: