Question: How many senators represent the state where Vicki Schmidt is a Republic member?

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Arkansas General Assembly: The Arkansas General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arkansas.  The legislature is a bicameral body composed of the upper house Arkansas Senate with 35 members, and the lower Arkansas House of Representatives with 100 members.  All 135 representatives and state senators represent an equal amount of constituent districts.  The General Assembly convenes on the second Monday of every other year.  A session lasts for 60 days unless the legislature votes to extend it.  The Governor of Arkansas can issue a "call" for a special session during the interims between regular sessions.  The General Assembly meets at the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock.

Democratic elements of Roman Republic: The beginning of the end of the leaders who were not noble to the citizens and disobeyed the Republic which came when the brothers Gracchi challenged the traditional constitutional order in the 130s and 120s BC.  Though members of the aristocracy themselves, they sought to parcel out public land to the dispossessed Italian peasant farmers.  Other measures followed, but many senators feared the Gracchi's policy and both brothers met violent deaths.  The next champion of the people was the great general Gaius Marius; he departed from established practice by recruiting his soldiers not only from landed citizens but from landless citizens, including the growing urban proletariat.  These were people who when the wars were over, looked to their commander for a more permanent reward in the shape of land of their own.  Thus the situation developed where commanders and their armies banded together in pursuit of political objectives, the commanders seeking power and the soldiers rewards.

Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 91): Manius Acilius Glabrio was a Roman Senator who served as consul ordinarius in AD 91 as the colleague of Trajan, afterwards emperor.  Although one of many senators executed during the reign of Domitian on the alleged grounds of plotting against the emperor, he was remembered by his contemporaries best for his strength.  Domitian summoned Glabrio during the latter's consulate to his Alban estate during the festival of the Juvenalia to kill a large lion; not only did Glabrio despatch the beast, but he escaped all injury.  Following his defeat of the lion, Glabrio was banished by Domitian, then executed while in exile.

Kansas Senate: The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas.  It is composed of 40 senators representing an equal amount of districts, each with a population of at least 60,000 inhabitants.  Members of the Senate are elected to a four-year term.  There is no limit to the number of terms that a senator may serve.  The Kansas Senate meets at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.

Lawrence Murphy: Lawrence Gustave Murphy (1831 – October 20, 1878) was Irish, Union Army veteran, Grand Army of the Republic member, Republican Party leader, racketeer, Old West businessman and gunman, and a main instigator of the Lincoln County War.

Battle of the Colline Gate (82 BC): The Battle of the Colline Gate, fought on the Kalends of November, 82 BC, was the final battle of the second civil war between Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the Marians.  Sulla won and secured control of Rome and Italy.  Appian is the only source who provides details about the battle.  Much of the war was fought in northern Italy.  The Lucanians, the Samnites and the Gauls fought alongside the Marians.  Following defection of the Gauls to the forces of Sulla and the defeat of some of his forces by Lucullus (one of Sulla's lieutenants) near Placentia (Piacenza), Carbo, the leader of the Marians, fled to Africa.  His lieutenants, Gaius Carrinas, Gaius Marcius Censorinus and Damasippus tried to force their way though a pass controlled by Sulla's men with all their forces and with the Samnites.  This failed and they marched on Rome.  Sulla sent his cavalry ahead to hinder their march and went to Rome with his army.  He encamped at the Colline Gate.  The enemy was already encamped nearby.  In the ensuing battle Sulla won on the right wing, but the left wing was defeated and fled to the gates pursued by the enemy.  The soldiers guarding the gate dropped the portcullis (a heavy grating which can be lowered to block the gate) when they saw the rush to the gate, killing many soldiers and many senators.  The rest of the Sullans turned and fought the enemy.  The battle continued through the night.  Gaius Carrinas, a Marian commander, and Pontius Telesinus, the Samnite commander, were killed and their camp was seized.  Eventually, the enemy fled.  The death toll was estimated at 50,000.  There were 8,000 prisoners.  They were shot down by darts because they were mostly Samnites.  Marcius, Carrinas and Marcus Lamponius, the Lucanian, fled.  Marcius and Carrinas were captured and brought in the next day.  Sulla killed them.  He sent his lieutenant, Lucretius, to show their heads before the walls of Praeneste (Palestrina), where Gaius Marius the Younger was besieged.  Velleius Paterculus wrote that Sulla ordered the head of Telesinus to be carried around the walls of Praeneste fixed on top of a spear.  He did not mention Marcius and Carrinas.

Arlington Hotel (Washington, D.C.): The Arlington Hotel was a hotel in Washington, D.C. which stood from 1868 to 1912.  It was considered the most opulent hotel in the District of Columbia during the post-Civil War era, a "distinctive but low-keyed example of the Second Empire style."  It was built in 1868 and expanded in 1889.  It was the Washington residence of many Senators and Congressmen, including three-term speaker Thomas Brackett Reed.  Reed died in the Arlington Hotel in December 1902 of Bright's disease.

James Dolan (Lincoln County War): James Joseph Dolan (May 2, 1848 – February 6, 1898) was an Union Army veteran, Grand Army of the Republic member, Republican Party leader, racketeer, Old West businessman and gunman, cattleman, and a key factor in the Lincoln County War, in New Mexico, which launched Billy the Kid to fame.

California State Senate: The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature.  Due to the state's large population and relatively small legislature, the State Senate has the largest population per representative ratio of any state legislative house.  In the United States House of Representatives, California is apportioned 53 representatives, each representing approximately 704,566 people, while in the State Senate, each of the 40 Senators represents approximately 931,349 people, with the result that California state senators each actually represent more voters than California's representatives to the United States Congress do.  Each member roughly represents a population equivalent to the state of Delaware.  As a result of Proposition 140 in 1990 and Proposition 28 in 2012, members elected to the legislature prior to 2012 are restricted by term limits to two four-year terms (eight years), while those elected in or after 2012 are allowed to serve 12 years in the legislature in any combination of four-year state senate or two-year state assembly terms.

Vicki Schmidt: Vicki Schmidt (born September 15, 1955) is a Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 20th District since 2005.  She served as the Senate Assistant Majority Leader from 2009-2012.

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Answer: 40 senators