American friends, please explain how your government operates with the house of Representatives and the Senate
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Cliffs Notes???  LOL!\n\nOne house proposes legislation and votes on it.  If it is passed, then it goes to the other house to be voted on.  If it passes there too, the president will sign or veto it.
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SENATE\nMajority Leader - Bill Frist (R - TN)\nMaj. Whip - Mitch McConnell (R - KY)\nPresident of Senate - Vice Pres Dick Cheney\nPresident Pro Tem - Ted Stevens (R - AK)\nPresident Pro Tem Emerius - Robert Byrd (D - WV)\nMinority Leader - Harry Reid (D - NV)\nMinority Whip - Richard Durbin (D - IL)\n\nThe VP serves as Presient of the senate, but other members preside over the senate in his absence (which is most of the time and they come from the majority party)\n\nHOUSE\nSpeaker - Dennis Hastert (R - IL)\nMaj Leader - John Boehner (R - OH)\nMaj Whip - Roy Blount (R - MO)\nMin Leader - Nancy Pelosi (D - CA)\nMin Whip - Steny Hoyer (D - MD)
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Congress is bicameral. There is the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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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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run government under u.s.a
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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 House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nEach house of Congress is futher divided into two major political parties: Republicans and Democrats (plus a couple of independents).
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I am assuming you are not American.\n\nTomorrow's elections are for Federal, State, and Local offices.\n\nAt the federal level, 435 seat in the House of Representatives are up for grabs.  In addition 33 United States Senate seats are also due for elections.\n\nAt the state level, it varies.  There are several state gubernatorial (governors; i.e. state chief executive) positions on the ballot.  There are also many stage legislature seats\n\nIt varies a great deal at the local level.  There may be city and/or county positions that will be on the ballot.\n\nIf you are American, god have mercy on us.
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When your party is in the majority, you get to choose the committee chairpersons. Every committee will have one more person from your party than the other. So you control the committees. A lot of the work of the Congress is done in committee. No vote is ever held on the floor until it gets passed by the appropriate committee.\n\nIf one party holds BOTH houses, then you have a lot less friction when the House and Senate get together to work out the differences in the House and Senate versions of a bill.
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The government of the United States, established by the U.S. Constitution, is a federal republic of individual states. The laws of the United States are contained in Acts of Congress; administrative regulations, and judicial cases interpreting the statutes and regulations. The federal government has three branches: the executive, legislative, and judicial. Through "checks and balances", each of these branches has some authority to act on its own, some authority to regulate the other two branches, and has some of its authority, in turn, regulated by one or two other branches.\n\nBecause of the federal government's size, broad powers and capabilities, it is widely considered the most powerful government in the world and the sole remaining superpower. Given their great powers in the world and nation, the President of the United States and his White House-based aides and Cabinet officials often are referred to as the most powerful people in the world.\n\nLegislative branch\nMain article: United States Congress \nThe Constitution grants all legislative powers of the federal government to the Congress, which is divided into two chambers, a Senate and a House of Representatives. The Senate is composed of two members from each state as provided by the Constitution. Membership in the House is based on each state's population, and its size is therefore not specified in the Constitution. Members of the House and Senate are elected by first-past-the-post voting in every state except Louisiana and Washington, which have runoffs.\n\nThe Constitution does not specifically call for the establishment of Congressional committees. As the nation grew, however, so did the need for investigating pending legislation more thoroughly. The 108th Congress (2003-2005) had 19 standing committees in the House and 17 in the Senate, plus four joint permanent committees with members from both houses overseeing the Library of Congress, printing, taxation, and the economy. In addition, each house can name special, or select, committees to study specific problems. Because of an increase in workload, the standing committees have also spawned some 150 subcommittees.\n\nThe Congress has the responsibility to monitor and influence aspects of the executive branch. Congressional oversight prevents waste and fraud, protects civil liberties and individual rights, ensures executive compliance with the law, gathers information for making laws and educating the public, and evaluates executive performance. It applies to cabinet departments, executive agencies, regulatory commissions, and the presidency. Congress's oversight function takes many forms:\n\nCommittee inquiries and hearings; \nFormal consultations with and reports from the President; \nSenate advice and consent for presidential nominations and for treaties; \nHouse impeachment proceedings and subsequent Senate trials; \nHouse and Senate proceedings under the 25th Amendment in the event that the President becomes disabled, or the office of the Vice President falls vacant; \nInformal meetings between legislators and executive officials; \nCongressional membership on governmental commissions; \nStudies by congressional committees and support agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office, and the Government Accountability Office, both of which are arms of Congress. \n\nResponsibilities of a Congressman\nEach individual Congressman must assume five roles. These roles include: legislator, committee member, representative of their constituents, servant of their constituents, and politician.\n\nPowers of Congress\nThe Constitution grants numerous powers to Congress. These include the power to: lay and collect taxes, pay debts, provide for common defense and general welfare of the U.S., borrow money on the credit of the U.S., regulate commerce with other nations, establish a uniform rule of naturalization, coin money and regulate its value, provide for punishment of counterfeiting, establish post
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when was your last government class??? Our government is not run by a single person. Lets see here. He was voted in, then he still has to work with the Legislative and Judicial branches of government.
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You mean checks and balances?  The government is divided into three branches: legislative (the congress; they make the laws), executive (president, governors, mayors, etc, they enact the laws), and judicial (the courts; interpret and enforce the laws).  They keep each other in line through the systems of checks and balances because each branch can make any actions of the other two null and void.\n\nFor instance, let's say Congress passes a law, but the President doesn't like it, so he vetos it.  The Congress can still have the law enacted by passing the law again with a higher vote count (I think it has to be 2/3 majority).  But the courts can find the law to be unconstitutional, and throw it out.  Congress can then amend the Constitution to make the law constitutional, and on and on and round and round....\n\nThat's a brief description of how our government keeps any one person or body from getting too much power.
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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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The United States federal government is divided into three branches: Executive (the President), Judiciary (the Supreme Court), and Legislative (Congress).\n\nCongress's job is to draft, deliberate, and vote on laws.  The Congress also keeps the other two branches in check, as all Supreme Court nominees must be confirmed by Congress, as do most Presidential nominations and decision.  Technically, at least, it is Congress that declares war, and Congress also has the power to censure or impeach the President.
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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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Senate:\nRepublicans:\nMajority Leader: Bill Frist (TN)\nMajority Whip: Mitch McConnell (KY)\nPresident Pro Tempore: Ted Stevens (AK)\n\nDemocrats:\nMinority Leader: Harry Reid (NV)\nMinority Whip: Dick Durbin (IL)\n\nHouse:\nRepublicans: \nSpeaker of the House: Dennis Hastert (IL)\nMajority Leader: John Boehner (OH)\nMajority Whip: Roy Blunt (MO)\n\nDemocrats: \nMinority Leader: Nancy Pelosi (CA)\nMinority Whip: Steny Hoyer (MD)\n\nThe Majority Leaders in both houses are in charge directing legislation onto the Floor of their chambers.  They lead their parties and determine what position their party will take on any particular legislation.  The Whips are in charge of rounding up votes.  They must ensure that the party members are going to vote with the party, and they can tally what legislation can and can't pass.\n\nThe Speaker of the House is the 3rd in the line of Constitutional succession after the President and Vice-President.  He presides over the House of Representatives and conducts affairs.  He also has control over the powerful Rules Committee, which determines what legislation gets to the floor of the House and what kind of debate it can have.\n\nThe President Pro Tempore is the presiding officer of the Senate when the Vice President is not around.  He doesn't really have much power outside of that.
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As far as the difference: there are many. For one, the Senate is presided over by Dick Cheney. He has some very major influence in the structure of commitee formation, which in essence determines the introduction of bills. It is ALOT harder to start a bill in the House, but it is even harder for Senators to get their bills to the President due to fillibusters that are common among House voters. The House seems attack Bush more frequently over homeland security matters and the prposed militarization of Mexico (as well as the biometrics part that they employers will need to verify while completing I-9 documents).\nThe Senate, as they appropriate budget bills, seems to be more concerned with defense spending and getting us OUT of Iraq ASAP