United States Senate Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Seniority=== {{Main|Seniority in the United States Senate}} By tradition, seniority is a factor in the selection of physical offices and in party caucuses' assignment of committees. When senators have been in office for the same length of time, a number of tiebreakers are used, including comparing their former government service and then their respective state population.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baker |first=Richard A. |title=Traditions of the United States Senate |url=https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/Traditions.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211024549/https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/Traditions.pdf |archive-date=December 11, 2018 |access-date=February 16, 2018 |website=United States Senate|page=4}}</ref> The senator in each state with the longer time in office is known as the ''senior senator'', while the other is the ''junior senator''. For example, majority leader [[Chuck Schumer]] is the senior senator from New York, having served in the senate since 1999, while [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] is New York's junior senator, having served since 2009. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page