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Democrats add new faces to Senate leadership;OLYMPIA (AP) — Senate Democrats added three women and twonew members to their leadershipteam Friday.Rosa Franklin, the only black in the Senate, was elected vice president pro tern. She will assist fellow Tacoma Democrat Lorraine Wo-jahn, the president pro tern, in presiding over the upper house whenever Lt. Gov. Joel Pritchard is not available. Franklin also is vice chairof the Human Services Corrections Committee.Valoria Loveland, a Pasco freshman who is the only Democratic senator from east of the Cascade mountains, was chosen whip. Her chief assignment is lining up votes and keeping track of members’ whereabouts. She also will be vice chair of three major committees: Ways and Means, Agriculture and Energy.Another first-term senator, Betti Sheldon of Bremerton, will be vice chair of the majority caucus. Sheldon, who is her party's lead legislator on regulatory reform, will assist previously elected chairman Sid Snyder of Long Beach. She also will be vice chair of the Governmental Operations Committee.New House members who werejust elected to the Senate, Mike Heavey and Cal Anderson, bothSeattle, will enter as part of the lead-1 ership. Heavey, who also will be vice chairman of the TransportationCommittee, will assist previously elected Floor Leader Harriet Spanel of Bellingham. Anderson, vice * chairman of both the Ecology ’ Parks and the Law Justice com-r mittees, will be assistant whip.Marcus Gaspard of Puyallup was lt;previously re-elected as majority leader.
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Sat, Dec 10, 1994
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