First of all, they're not "fellow Senators"
I think I made my point here.....
First of all, they're not "fellow Senators"
I think I made my point here.....
I assumed you were an American Political Junkie, like 90% of us Freepers. Perhaps not? Because it looks like you are thinking that "California has these 3 senators - Boxer, Yee and DiFi. How come only two of the three are appearing together in all these photos?"
Let's clear this up.
There are two very different types of "Senators" in the US - on the Federal level and on the State level.
Each state sends exactly two *Federal* Senators, no more and no less, to Washington DC to represent their state in the United States Senate. The US Senate, along with the US House of Representatives, compose our legislature at the Federal/National Level.
But at the State Level, each state has their own Legislature. Almost all of the 50 have a two-part (or "bi-cameral") legislature plus a governor plus a state supreme court that mirror the Federal Govt's structure (of US Senate + US House + US Prez + US Supr Ct). The state-level legislatures usually have a few dozen members in the "senate" chamber, and maybe twice as many(?) in their "house" chambers. The names are usually something like "the Colorado State House" or "the Georgia State Senate" or similar.
In California's case, they use the terms "State Senate" and "State Assembly". They have 40 State Senators, each of them representing one geographical district in the state and having 4-year terms, and 80 State Assembly people representing smaller districts and having 2-year terms.
SUMMARY: Yee is one of 40 California State Senators (meeting at the state capitol of Sacramento) who represents only his own district (= half of SF City plus parts of San Mateo County). But Boxer & Feinswine represent the entire State of California in the United States Senate that meets in Wash. DC. So his job is to work on legislation for the State of California, while BB & DiFi's jobs are to legislate for the entire USA.
PS: Nebraska insists on doing everything differently. They have only a single ("uni-cameral") state legislative body. And they often split up their electoral votes at Prez election time, rather than the ubiquitous "winner takes all" model. The only good reason I can think of for this is that 150 years ago NEB must have considered it a fun prank to confuse schoolkids nationwide on tests & homeworks in their required "Civics Classes" - where you're taught about how all levels of govt work. But the joke's on them, because a half century of educational decay in the US means that school kids no longer learn this kind of info, so Nebraska's ancient prank is now totally moot. :-)