Nebraska`s Legislature remains one-of-a-kind
(World News USA)

On Jan. 5, 1937, the Nebraska State Legislature met for the first time in a completely different format: it contained only one legislative body. A look at the numbers shows that implementing a unicameral cut the cost of government dramatically. Legislative membership went from 133 under a bicameral to 43 in the new single house, a reduction of 70%. The number of committees was also pared down from 61 to 18. In that first year, 581 bills were introduced, compared with almost twice that number from 1936. Numbers alone don`t tell the whole story. Eighty-three years later, Nebraska remains the only state in the country that has adopted a unicameral form of government. After all that time, our...