Powers of the Number Two
Powers and Duties of the Lieutenant Governor and the U.S. Vice-President
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| Very Weak | Weak | Moderate | Strong | Very Strong | ||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| KY | AK | HI | MA | CA | CT | AR | AL | |
| UT | CO | IN | MI | DE | SD | SC | MS | |
| FL | IA | NM | GA |  |
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| IL | LA | NY | ID | VT | ||||
| KS | VA | NC | MO | |||||
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| MN | PA | NV | ||||||
| MT | WA | ND | ||||||
| OH | RI | |||||||
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U.S.Vice-President
Texas
Source: Derived from The Book of the States, 2002 (Lexington, Ky: the Council of State Governments, 2000), p.176-7. Lieutenant governors and the vice-president accumulate points as follows: +1 for presiding over senate; +1 for appointing senate committees; +1 for power to break roll-call ties; +1 for power to assign bills; -1 if chief executive assigns duties; -1 if member of chief executive's cabinet/advisory body; +1 for acting as chief executive when the chief executive is out of state. Point totals are rescaled to range from 0-7. Eight states have no lieutenant governor (AZ, ME, NH, NJ, OR, TN, WV, and WY). |
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