Georgia state Senate Republicans will stick with their same leadership team. Majority Senate Republicans gathered behind closed doors Thursday and chose Sen. John Kennedy of Macon to serve two more years as president pro tem. That's the second-ranking member of the Senate.
Georgia Senate President Pro Tem John Kennedy , R-Macon, speaks Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at the State Capitol in Atlanta. for president pro tem, the second-ranking member of the chamber. The full Senate will vote on the post when it convenes for a new term on Jan. 13. With Republicans retaining the same 33-23 majority as the last term, Kennedy is likely to win that vote.
After the vote, Kennedy reaffirmed that the Senate Republican Caucus will maintain close links with Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, a fellow Republican and former state senator. The majority has let Jones assign senators to committees, name committee chairmen and assign legislation to committees. Those powers, along with presiding over debate in the Senate, help a lieutenant governor shape legislation. Lawmakers took back some or all of those powers in 2003, when a Republican majority wanted to curb Democratic Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, and in 2010, when GOP senators were unhappy with fellow Republican Casey Cagle.
“If we can return that to them and still provide the government services and do what we need to do up here, that’s always a good option to send it back to the people that work hard for it in the first place,” Kennedy said.
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