Members of the House be at least 25 years old, have been a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and live in the state they represent
U.S. Senate: age (at least thirty years of age); U.S. citizenship (at least nine years); and residency in the state a senator represents at time of election.
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Total Members
435
100
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Area Represented
Districts
States
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Impeachment Process
To bring charges against somebody (Simple majority to impeach)
Serves as the Jury. (⅔ vote to remove you from office) 7
Presidential Election Process
(if no majority in the EC)
Chooses the president
Chooses the vice president
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Currently controlled by what party
Republican
Republican
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Leadership
Speaker John Boehner
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
VP / President of Senate Joe Biden
Majority Leader Harry Reid
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
President Pro Tempore Patrick J. Leahy
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Missouri’s Elected Officials
Representatives & Party
District
1st Lacy Claire Jr. Democratic
2nd Anne Wagner Republican
3rd Blaine Luetkemeyer Republican
4th Vicky Hartzler Republican
5th Emanuel Cleaver II Democratic
6th Sam Graves Republican
7th Billy Long Republican
8th Jason Smith Republican
Senator & Party Claire McCaskill
Democratic
Senator & Party Roy Blunt
Republican
If the House is going to put an attachment on a bill it must be germane. That means it’s ‘related to’ the bill.
A non germane attachment is totally acceptable. That’s why the senate always gets crazy attachments to bills.
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Amendments to Bills
(Pork Attachments)
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Differences in Duties / Powers
Domestic: Means ‘home’ (duh) home as in within the United States. Why?
Cause the constitution says that any revenue bills have to start in the house.
What’s revenue? Anything to do with taxes
The EC: If no candidate gets 270 votes then the house decides the presidency
SO the House is more focused on issues in the
US.
Senate focuses more on foreign issues.
Two examples of what the senate does that supports this idea.
Senate approves ambassadors to foreign countries (Like Caroline Kennedy is the ambassador to Japan)
Senate has to approve treaties with other countries (by ⅔)
The EC: Gets to decide the vice preseidency
SO the Senate focuses more on foreign affairs
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Differences in Atmosphere
So many people are in the House that they have to have tons of rules. That makes the
House more formal. All 435 White dudes have lots of limits on debate.
100 dudes are in the Senate. Senate is more
‘deliberative’ which means debate. They can do this because there are less people.
Unanimous consent agreement: all 100 people have to agree to rules being put on a
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branches that are recognized as the House of Representatives which are based in 150 members allowed by constitution terms; they are permitted to preserve their spot for two years before to face elections to personal renewal. In other hand, we have the senate that compared to the House of Representatives is composed of 31 members, a significant difference, they are elected in general elections, but they are divided into two groups, 15 out of 31 members of senate face elections 2 years after they got…
of the House, because the speaker serves as the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives. 9. Resolution, because a resolution by the House or Senate is the declaration of the legislature's position on an issue. 10. Quorum, because quorum is a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business. 11. (a) It goes a lot slower for the House than during the opening sessions of the senate, the senate is continuous, goes faster than the house, and the…
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taking a position. Representatives are elected to do what they think is best for their constituents. Roughly speaking members of the House tend to act more like delegates and members of Senate behave more like trustees. They do so because of the electoral incentives they face. Because they face more homogeneous constituents at more regular intervals, members of the house have stronger incentives to act on behalf of their public's current preferences. But senators, because they face more heterogeneous…
concentrated together Thus, they created a bicameral legislature, which consisted of two houses—a House of Representatives and a Senate—where one was based on population representation and the other was more evenly balanced. Despite the checks and balances created, the framers still expected Congress to be the dominant branch in politics. The Senate has been small enough to evade many of the House problems, and in the Senate, there is no limit on the amount of time that can be used to debate over a topic…
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