Michigan Senate

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The Michigan Senate is the upper chamber of Michigan's bicameral state legislature, responsible for crafting and passing state laws alongside the Michigan House of Representatives.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf component of the Michigan Legislature
legislative body
state upper house
authority Michigan statutes
surface form: Michigan Compiled Laws

Constitution of the State of Michigan
surface form: Michigan Constitution
budgetaryRole shares responsibility for enacting state budget
buildingOwner Michigan
surface form: State of Michigan
canHold special sessions when called under law
coLegislativeBodyWith Michigan House of Representatives
country United States of America
surface form: United States
currentPresidingOfficerOffice Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
electionCycle every 4 years
electionType partisan elections
establishedBy Constitution of the State of Michigan
surface form: Michigan Constitution of 1850
hasChamberType upper house
hasCommitteeSystem yes
hasLegislativeSession regular sessions
hasPower advise and consent on certain gubernatorial appointments
approve state budget
enact state statutes
override gubernatorial vetoes with required majority
propose constitutional amendments
impeachmentRole tries impeachments brought by the Michigan House of Representatives
isBicameralPartner Michigan House of Representatives
jurisdiction Michigan
surface form: State of Michigan
language English
legislativeProcessRole crafting state laws
passing state laws
majorityLeaderTitle Senate Majority Leader
meetingCity Lansing, Michigan
meetsIn Michigan State Capitol
membersRepresent single-member districts
minorityLeaderTitle Senate Minority Leader
numberOfMembers 38
oversightFunction conducts hearings and investigations
partOf Michigan Legislature
predecessor Michigan Territorial Council
surface form: Territorial Council of Michigan
presidingOfficerIs Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
presidingOfficerTitle President of the Senate
redistrictingBody Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission
sealUsed Seal of the Michigan Senate
sessionLocation Senate Chamber, Michigan State Capitol
state Michigan (most of state)
surface form: Michigan
termLength 4 years
termLimits 2 terms
termLimitsTotalYears 8 years
votingSystem first-past-the-post
website Michigan Senate self-linksurface differs
surface form: https://www.senate.michigan.gov

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Michigan Senate
Description of subject: The Michigan Senate is the upper chamber of Michigan's bicameral state legislature, responsible for crafting and passing state laws alongside the Michigan House of Representatives.

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

government of Michigan hasLegislativeChamber Michigan Senate
subject surface form: Government of Michigan
William G. Milliken, Governor of Michigan legislativeBody Michigan Senate
subject surface form: William G. Milliken
Michigan hasLegislativeBody Michigan Senate
Michigan legislatureUpperHouse Michigan Senate
Michigan hasUpperHouse Michigan Senate
Michigan upperHouse Michigan Senate
Michigan hasUpperHouse Michigan Senate
Michigan upperHouse Michigan Senate
Michigan upperHouse Michigan Senate
Michigan hasLegislativeBody Michigan Senate
Michigan upperHouse Michigan Senate
Michigan hasLegislativeBody Michigan Senate
Congressman Charles Diggs office contested Michigan Senate
subject surface form: Charles Diggs
this entity surface form: Michigan State Senate
Legislative branch of Michigan hasPart Michigan Senate
Michigan Legislature hasPart Michigan Senate
Michigan Legislature upperHouse Michigan Senate
Michigan Senate website Michigan Senate self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: https://www.senate.michigan.gov