What's the difference between the House of Representatives and the Senate?
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aside from thier creation. The senate has 2 representives from each state. the house has a diffrent number of representives, depending on population of the states represented.
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There are no senators in the White House.  The White House is where the President of the US lives.  Senators are part of the legislative branch of the US government and the Senate, together with the House of Representatives comprise Congress and are located in the Capitol building.\n\nThere are 100 Senators in Congress -- two for each of the 50 states.  The House has 435 members that vary between the states based on the population distribution seen during the US national census.\n\nNikki's answer above of 35 senators pertains to the senate of the STATE OF ALABAMA only!!!!  As does the constitution in the link she provided.
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Congress is the legislature (that is, lawmaking body) of the U.S. Federal Government.  Congress is divided into two chambers, the House of Representatives (lower chamber) and the Senate (upper chamber).  They are roughly equal in power, but there are differences in both the composition and functions of each body.\n\nFirst, the similarities.  All bills must pass both chambers in order to become law.  Both chambers have oversight responsibility over Federal agencies (usually exercised in committees).  Legislation can originate in either chamber, except for spending bills, which must originate in the House.  It just takes a simple majority for a bill to pass each chamber.\n\nFor more information on the legislative process, see:\n\nhttp://www.vote-smart.org/resource_govt101_02.php\n\nNow, the contrasts.  First, the differences in composition.  \n\nThe House has 435 members elected from single member districts all of roughly equal population.  The districts are drawn up by state legislatures after each decennial census determines how many seats each state gets.  All members must stand for election every 2 years.  The Senate has 100 members, exactly 2 from each state, regardless of the state's population.  Senators serve for 6 years, but their terms are staggered so about one third are up for election every two years.  \n\nAs mentioned above, all spending bills must originate in the House.  Also, the House is the chamber which has impeachment powers, which it exercises by a simple majority vote. (An impeachment is akin to an indictment).  Once impeached the official is tried before the Senate, which can remove him or her if 2/3rds of the Senate finds him or her guilty.\n\nBut the Senate has several other functions not shared with the House.  First, all presidential appointments (cabinet secretaries, judges, ambassadors, high ranking military officials, etc, etc) must be approved by (a simple majority in) the Senate.  Treaties must be approved by 2/3rds of the Senate.\n\nThat is it in a nutshell.  For more info, see Article I of the U.S. Constitution, especially sections 1 and 2 [1] and also the other links below will prove very helpful to you. (And be sure to check out the info above on how a bill becomes law)
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There are 3 branches of gov't in U.s., the legislative  branch has 2 houses, the 100 senators, house of representive. in most states they can serve as many terms as they went. the titles are Mr. or Ms. Senator, or mr or mrs. XXX
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They're both very important.  When a bill is brought to Congress, it first must be brought through the House.  If it is approved by the House, it is passed up to the Senate for approval and then the President ultimately has the power to veto it.  If either the House or the Senate is balanced in a certain direction by either a majority of Democrats or Republicans, it determines greatly what type of bills get passed and turned down.
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Senate = 9 years.\nHouse of Reps = 7 years.\nPresident = lifetime.
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Two notable differences that I remember:  \n\n1. Congressman were appointed by the state legislatures as opposed to direct election as they are now.\n\n2.  Congress only had one house, as opposed to the bicameral legislature (two houses) that we have now that consists of the Senate and House of Representatives.
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The Virginia Plan was the compromise in which the House of Representatives was determined by population, while the Senators were two per state.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Plan\n\nSo the answer is House and Senate.
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the legislative branch of our government is organized into a bicameral system. We have two chambers. One is the United States Senate which has 100 members. 2 Senators are elected from each state and serve for 6 year terms. The other is the House of Representatives. The House has 435 members who are elected from congressional districts which are determined by population. Members of the House serve for 2 year terms.
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The most signifigant power in the House is Appropriations.  They control the spending.  The power to declare war must be initiated in the House but ratified in the Senate.  The Senate has the power of the filibuster which can delay, and sometimes, defeat legislation.  All the power in the House rests in the hands of committee chairpersons and so the average Senator is much more powerful than the average Congressman.  The House has 435 members and the Senate only 100 and so a Senator has more clout and prestige.  The function of both houses is to represent different constituencies.  The House was set up for all the people, to be their voice in Washington.  The Senate was originally set up as a kind of aristocracy and Senators were originally appointed and not elected to ensure that the general rabble didn't get too high a hand.  The Senate was given the power to ratify treaties and "advise and consent" in regards to Presidential appointments.  The committee chairpersons in the House and the Speaker of the House are more powerful than the average Senator.  Sorry for rambling.
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The Speaker of the House (what you're calling house majority leader) has more power because that's the way our Founding Fathers set it up.  Senators are not necessarily more powerful than House members.  Newly-elected Senators are much less powerful than House committee chairpersons.  The Committee chairmen of Appropriations, Rules and Ways and Means are extremely powerful.  Congressmen would much rather have these jobs than Senate Majority Leader.  With Appropriations and Ways and Means you're controlling the purse of the country and with Rules, you're controlling the agenda.
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Senate and House of Representatives
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The senate and the house are the two government bodies that make up the legislative branch of government, or congress. They propose and pass laws and appropriate funds. They also do investigations and can appoint special councils and approve judge ships.
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You can write a whole book on the differences between the two chambers of congress\n\n1.) Senate are 6 year terms while the HOR are two year terms\n2.) Every 2 years, only 1/3 of the senators are up for re-election.  All HOR congressmen are up every two years.\n3.) Senator represents a whole state, representative represents a district within a state\n4.) HOR can impeach the president, Senate can throw the president out of office\n5.) Only the Senate judiciary committee can appoint justices to the Supreme Court, only the House judiciary committee can decides how many seats there are on the federal bench.\n6.) 435 members of the House and 100 senators (two per state)\n\nThere are many more differences, but those were the ones that came to mind
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If you mean the US House of Reps.  you can look it up here:\n\nhttp://www.house.gov/
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The Congress of the United States has two chambers:\nSenate: 100 members. (Two per state).\nHouse of Representatives.: 435 members (Members apportioned by state population.)\n\nThe Senate is thus one-half of the Congress.
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The senate is part of the legistlative branch of government, along with the House of Representatives. The president is the executive branch, while the Supreme Court heads the Judiciary branch.