why does house majority leader have more power than senate majority leader ??
819053
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.
1106482
I don't know what you are trying to make, but a political party usually gets its power from having a large number of members.  How can you get your candidates elected by a majority vote if you don't have a lot of voters voting for your candidate?
862495
In the United States, in the U.S. House of Representatives and in state legislatures and local government councils, the speaker is usually selected by the members of the majority party and functions as a leader of that party. Thus, though the speaker is expected to be fair, he or she uses procedural rulings to advance the causes and agenda of his or her own party. Ceremonially, the speaker may represent the whole house, but politically he or she is the legislative voice of the party in power. \n\nThe Speaker of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress is second in line for succession to the presidency: should the president and vice president be unable to serve, the speaker becomes president.  P.S. when we voted more democrats than republicans into the senate the democrats became the majority and nancy palosi was in line to become the majority leader or the speaker of the house because the majority will vote her in!!!
838551
The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress, the other being the Senate. Each state is represented in the House proportionally to its population, and is entitled to at least one Representative. The total number of Representatives is currently fixed at 435 by the Reapportionment Act of 1929, though Congress has the authority to change that number. Each Representative serves for a two-year term and may be re-elected an unlimited number of times. The presiding officer of the House is known as the Speaker, and is elected by the members. The present House delegations by state are shown in the article List of U.S. states by population.\n\nThe bicameral Congress arose from the desire of the Founders to create a "house of the people" that would represent public opinion, balanced by a more deliberative Senate that would represent the governments of the individual states, and would be less susceptible to variations of mass sentiment. The House is often considered the "lower house," and the Senate as the "upper house," although the United States Constitution does not use such language. The Constitution provides that the approval of both houses is necessary for the passage of legislation.\n\nThe House is generally considered a more partisan chamber than the Senate. Many of the Founding Fathers intended the Senate (whose members were originally chosen by the state legislatures) to be a check on the popularly elected House, just as the House was to be a check on the Senate. The "advice and consent" powers (such as the power to approve treaties) were therefore granted to the Senate alone. The House was granted its own exclusive powers: the power to initiate revenue bills, impeach officials, and elect the President in electoral college deadlocks. The Senate, however, can propose amendments to spending bills, try impeached officials, and choose the Vice President in an electoral college deadlock. The Senate and its members generally have greater prestige than the House since Senators serve longer terms (six years) in a smaller body and (in most cases) represent larger constituencies than Representatives.\n\nThe House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol.
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A president's power and influence may be limited, but politically the president is certainly the most important power in Washington.\n\nThough constrained by various other laws passed by Congress, the President's executive branch conducts most foreign policy, and his power to order and direct troops as commander-in-chief is quite significant. (The exact limits of what a President can do with the military without Congressional authorization are unknow, even today)\n\nThere are checks and balances to assure the government is ran according to the constitution.  There are always ways to influence, but the body has more influence on the president, then vise versa.\n\nThe constitution provides certain checks and balances among the three branches of the federal government. The influence of Congress on the presidency has varied from one period to another; it depends largely on the leadership and the political influence of the President. The authors of the Constitution expected the greater power to lie with Congress and that is one reason they are described in Article One. Under the first half-dozen Presidents, power seems to have been evenly divided between the President and Congress, in part because early Presidents largely restricted their vetoes to claims of unconstitutionality.\n\nTo improve their working relationships with Congress, presidents in recent years have set up a Congressional Liaison Office in the White House. Presidential aides keep abreast of all important legislative activities and try to persuade senators and representatives of both parties to support administration policies.\n\n\nHope this helps...
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Since half of all americans have never heard of her that means that over half the people who have support her.  Better than Bush's and most of the rest of Congress' aproval rating.  Not to mention she was already house minority leader, why would she not then become majority leader.  Just making things up doesn't really help your case
936882
While the Democrats control the House without question, the Senate is still undecided. Either way the president is now a lame duck. However, the label also applies to Democrats at this point. The reason is because the president can veto any legislation they attempt to pass. The conclusion here is don't count on anything substantive happening in government for the next 2 years unless the Democrats truly embrace bi-partisan legislation efforts.
863974
Because it makes a big difference who organizes the houses of Congress.
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Maybe I can get you started, and others can think of more.\n\nEach body has committees that hold hearings, advise the  Senators or Representatives of its findings and make voting recommendations.\n\nIts members are elected from their home state.\n\nEach Senator and Rep has one vote.\n\nEach body has a leader, The Speaker of the House, and the President Pro Tem of the Senate.\n\nFrom within the ranks the Majority Leader of the Senate is chosen, and similarly the Speaker of the House
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50% is not a majority, 51% is.  More than on race is close enough to trigger mandatory recounts.  The is NO race in the country were OFFICIAL results are in.  Provisional ballots (which are not in the unofficial counts) and some absentee ballots have not been counted yet.  This is not to say the preliminary returns on wrong.  I simply mean your statement (and you did not ask a question) is based on incomplete information.\n\nBTW,  the House has SOLE authority to impeach.  The Senate acts as the jury at trial.  Impeachment is the indictment.
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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.
83903
The president is the peoples representative.  If Congress tries to become too powerful, he has the ability to veto legislation and force them to pass it with a 2/3rds vote instead of a simple majority.
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According to the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, powers not listed in the Constitution or Amendments are considered to be given to the states.\n\nThe congressional term limits of state House and Senate representatives are determined by the State legislatures. I know that the State of California has term limits for Congress, however, many states do not, these states have the most powerful members of Congress among their ranks.
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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.
1104754
Because Democrats believe in giving more power to the common people, and Republicans believe in giving more power to the Government and it's individual Authorities, regardless of it's policies that are not proliferating to the people that it serves.
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Once a bill is introduced in Congress, it is assigned to a committee.  The committee can pass the bill along to the floor of the senate or it can shelve the bill and not do anything.  This bill was being shelved.\n\n  The Democrats were trying to get the bill on the floor for an up or down vote. \n\nWhat was actually being voted on was a procedure to get the bill out of committee.  That is what requires 60 votes.\n\nIt still only takes a simple majority to pass a bill.
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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