why are there more areas represented in the House of Representatives than there are states?
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US states have members of the House of Representatives.  US territories and other areas such as protectorate (Puerto Rico) has representatives that are non-voting members.  There purpose is to provide a communication from their terroritories to the House.
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Every state gets 2 senators while each state gets a specific number of Representatives based on population.\n\nSenators serve 6 year terms and House members serve two year terms.  \n\nThe senate is considered the upper house of congress, while the house is the lower.
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There are two houses of congress, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. \n\nThe Senate has two representatives (Senators) from each state.\n\nThe House of Representatives has representatives based on the population in each state.\n\nA Congressman may be either a Senator or a Representative. Generally, the distinction is Congressman and Senator, but not always.\n\nSenators, by virtue of the fact that there only 100, have more power. I don't know exactly how many Representatives there are - you could probably find that datum fairly quickly, and I am too lazy to do it for you. I think a conservative estimate is that there are more that 3 representatives for every Senator.
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The Senate has 100 seats, two for each state.  A Senator serves for 6 years, after which there is a new election for that Senate seat.  The structure of the election schedule is such that not all Senators come up for re-election all at once; they are staggered.  About one-third of the Senatorial seats comes up for election every two years.  Thus, over the course of six years, each Senate seat has exactly one election.  In the 2006 election cycle, 33 Senate seats are on the ballot in their various states.\n\nThe House of Representatives has 435 seats, which are assigned proportionally to the population of each state.  The House has had 435 seats since the Reapportionment Act of 1929, but technically, Congress has the authority to vote to change that number.  A Representative serves for a two year term.  Thus, all of the House seats come up for election every two years.\n\nSo this year, 33 Senate seats (1/3) and 435 House seats (100%) are on the ballot in their various states, in accordance with the terms set out in the Constitution and its various amendments.
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The size of the House of Representatives was set at 435 early in the 20th century.  It's only set by law, so Congress can increase the size if they so desire.
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I think it protects the rights of the smaller states.  If they didn't have this, they would have no say in the leader of the country compared to California, Texas, New York.....\n\nThey have a much higher percentage this way.  If Alaska would even less say than they have now.  It might not make much of a difference in most elections, but in a very close election, they could make the difference and hence the candidates have to appeal to them.
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Like the Congress of the United States, every state has its own legislature. Every state except Nebraska has two houses in its legislature. \n\nEvery state has two senators that it sends to Washington; but every state decides for itself how many members there will be in the state legislatures.\n\nUS Senators deal with national issues. State Senators work in the individual state legislatures that meet in each state's capital, and only work on state issues. Your state legislature meets in Harrisburg, and every district in the state has its own representatives and senators.\n\nHope this answer helps. Cheers, mate.
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You'd be surprised.  Members of Congress spend lots of time in their district.  All of them maintain homes there, and (unlike Senators who run for reelection every six years) members of Congress are continually involved in permanent fundraising and community outreach in their districts.
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The House of Representatives
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Federal has a greater jurisdiction or control area than the State has. Feds. also have much more power and control than the State does.
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Short answer:\nCongress is the legislative branch of the government\nThe Senate is half of Congress\nThe House of Representatives (sometimes called just "House") is the other Half of Congress\nRepresentatives are the members of the House of Representatives\n\nLong answer:\nThe US government is made up of three branches - executive (president), judicial (courts, from the Supreme Court on down), and legislative (Congress). There is a separation of powers (you probably learned the phrase "checks and balances" in school) - this allows each branch to have some power of its own and some power to regulate the other branches.\n\nCongress is made up of two elected groups - the Senate and the House of Representatives. Both have similar duties - the difference is in how the numbers are distributed over the states, and how long their terms are. All states have two Senators, and they serve 6 years. With Senators, all people in the state vote for both Senators, just not both at the same time. The number of Representatives is determined by the population of the state. Right now there are 435 voting members (representatives from DC, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the US Virgin Islands don't vote). Every state gets at least one Representative, but the larger the state, the more Representatives they have. Each Representative comes from a section of their home state - not everyone in the state gets to elect all of the state's Representatives. You elect one in your region. Representatives serve 2 year terms, so every two years all of the seats in the House of Representatives are up for vote.\n\nCongress deals with stuff like interstate and international commerce, declaring war, levying taxes, maintaining the military, and organizing the federal courts. There are some things that they cannot control according to the Constitution - powers that are reserved for the states. \n\nThere are a few things that only the Senate or only the House can do. For example, when the President nominates a new Supreme Court Justice or federal judge, the Senate votes whether or not to accept (confirm) the nomination. Only the House can begin impeachment proceedings against the President (and it doesn't go to the Senate unless the House vote to impeach). The House also is the only place where bills for raising money can be started.
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Norm's answer is partially correct. He is talking about re-districting according to the Census returns. However, the re-districting in the news lately is slightly different.\n\nOur country is a representative Republic, so we cast our votes for representatives. These may be Congressmen, Senators, Presidential Electors, Assemblymen, Councilmen, or whatever. Everyone in the district casts their votes, and the winning candidate becomes the representative of that district. And, of course, there is a limited number of districts.\n\nThe re-districting you are hearing about in the news concerns altering the shape and contents of each district to obtain a desired political effect. This means creating the district so a particular group will have better or more fair showing when the votes are counted. Here are some examples.\n\nIt had been prevalent decades ago to create districts where each district had as few African American people as possible so their total political voice would be dissipated and minimized. In 1964, with the Voting Rights Act, Congress said that problems like this in the past could be "corrected" by creating new districts where the number of African Americans was a majority.\n\nThere has been an allegation that the re-districting in Texas was done to make as many State Legislature districts as possible have Republican majorities. It is suggested that this re-districting would have given Republicans a larger number of votes in the Legislature than would be proper by people's votes. Some Republicans have answered that the previous districting had given Democrats this same unfair advantage, and that this is another type of correction.\n\nI hope this helps.
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The House of Representatives has 140 members and the Senate has 40. It is not called Congress, but the General Court.
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House of Representatives.  One part of Congress.  The House of Representatives have delegates from each state.  The number from each state depends on the state's population.  (The other half of Congress is the Senate - always 2 members from each state no matter the population)
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You're going to need a big map.  There are 50 states, but 435 Congressional districts...To be fair, in some states (Alaska, South Dakota, for example) the entire state is one congressional district.  But just try drawing 54 districts into California...
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There are a total of 50 states.  There are the 48 continental states and Alaska and Hawaii.  The United States also has six territories and the District of Columbia.
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In the senate..the  number is set to 100, 2 for each state..in the house..there is a total of 435 seats...the amount of seats each state gets is based on how big that state is.