How is congress divided?
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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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There are three branches of the government in the U.S.\n1. Executive Branch- this is the president, and his hand- picked cabinet; they usually agree with him on most issues.\n2. Legislative Branch- this is Congress. Congress is The House of Representatives, and The Senate. If the president wants to pass a law, it has to get the majority or 2/3 of the votes in Congress. When the opposite party is in power in Congress, this limits the President's power significantly. Also, if Congress wants to pass a law, the President can veto it if he chooses.\n3. Judicial Branch- this is the courts sytem; The U.S. Supreme Court is the head of this Branch. The Chief Justices decide on many things, but most importantly, they can decide what IS and what ISN'T Constitutional. The President nominates someone for a position in The Supreme Court, but Congress has to approve of his nomination. Of course he usually chooses someone who is sympathetic to his agenda.\nRight now, the Democrats have nearly won control of Congress,\nthis will limit George W. Bush's power, because they will oppose him on most issues. He is a Republican.
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The president is always in the "lime-light." Therefore, he is the one to get blamed. Whereas congress is two seperate bodies of many people.  Plus people like a fall-guy.
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regain majority in congress
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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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There are three branches Executive Legislative and Judicial each struggling to gain more power but are restricted under checks and balances.\nThere are two main parties libral Democrates and consevative Republicans both of which can't get anything done because the idea of having more House and Senate seats appeals them more then protecting and providing for the American citizens.
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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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The members of the Congress are elected by the people in their state or districts.  Thus, they represent the people in national issues and decides for the in the Congress.  In so doing, they are representives of the people to the national level.
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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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If both the presidency and the congress are of the same party then it would seem that the party should be able to create/pass laws that favor that party's views. This can hold true for many of the bills/laws presented - congress creates and votes them in and the president does not veto it and signs them into law. Not all bills/laws get passed that way but it would seem easier...\n\nWhen the presidency and congress are of different parties there tends to be more debate/filibuster actions in congress and the presidential vetoes if the written document seems to favor one party's view over the other.\n\nWith the Dems now controlling the Majority of both houses, it will be more difficult for the President to "push" his views/agenda/wishes through the congress to create bills/laws that he wants to be enacted...\n\nHope this helps...\n\nFor instance, Jimmy Carter was a relatively unknown politician when he became President so the congress was very reluctant to create/pass any bills/laws that he desired so as an effect he has been viewed as an "relatively" ineffective president and that may have contributed to why he was not re-elected even though there is a general consensus that he was one of the top intelligent presidents of the U.S.
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1     When writing the constitution, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention ran into a problem. The states were in fierce disagreement over how to establish the Congress. The smaller states wanted equal division of representatives. The larger states wanted representatives based on population. In coming to a compromise – called The Great Compromise – the delegates divided the Congress into two houses, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.\n \n2     The Senate gives the small states an equal voice in the government. Each state has two Senators who serve six-year terms. In order to serve in the Senate, a person must be thirty years old, have been a U.S. citizen for nine years, and be a resident of the state where elected. The Senate is the more distinguished house in Congress. Members are older and usually have more experience in government. Of the one-hundred members, one-third of the Senate comes up for election every two years. The rotating elections help to maintain the stability of this house of Congress.\n \n3     The Senate has many important jobs of its own. In addition to working on bills, the Senate is responsible for approving many of the decisions of the president. Treaties and appointments of judges, department heads, ambassadors, and agency leaders receive final approval in the Senate. Treaties are given special consideration and must be approved by a two-thirds vote to become law.\n \n4     The leader of the Senate is the vice-president. As leader, the vice-president decides who will speak to the Senate and casts a deciding vote when a tie occurs. However, the vice-president is not a member of the Senate and does not participate in debates about bills.\n \n5     When the Senate discusses a bill, they do not have a strict set of rules to follow. Standard procedures allow debating and amending a bill to continue indefinitely. However, an agreement called "unanimous consent" can change the standard procedures followed. Under "unanimous consent," all of the Senators must agree to modify the procedures. If one individual Senator disagrees, that Senator has the power to stop the modification. When this happens, a bill becomes the victim of a filibuster. In a filibuster, the Senator in disagreement talks on and on about the bill to delay the final vote. In order to end this, sixty Senators must call for cloture, which sets a time limit for debate.\n \n6     The House of Representatives is called the lower house of Congress. There are four-hundred and thirty five members in the House. Every two years the entire House of Representatives is up for election. Representatives must be careful to be the voice of the people for their state. The shorter term gives the people the opportunity to choose someone else when a representative does not follow their wishes. To serve as a representative, a person must be twenty-five years old, a U.S. citizen for seven years, and a resident of the state where elected.\n \n7     Population determines the number of representatives allotted to a state. In order to determine allotment, the federal government takes a census every ten years. State leaders form districts in each state based on the census results. Each district gets one representative. Every state receives at least one representative no matter how small their population may be.\n \n8     In addition to working on laws with the Senate, the House of Representatives has other responsibilities. In a presidential election where a candidate does not receive a majority of the electoral votes, the House of Representatives meets to choose the next President.\n \n9     In addition, a bill concerning taxes must start in the House.
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My solution to the Electoral College would be split up the states vote by Congressional House of Rep. districts. and then divide each states populous vote by district. To where a candidate could loose a state but still get an electoral college vote accordance with the percentage of the populous vote of that state.
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1.  C.  The number of members of the House each state gets depends on its population.  The actual method is the sum of least squares, since the House membership is set at 435.\n\n2.  B.  The Speaker of the House is the most prominent person in the Congress, even though the Vice President is technically President of the Senate.\n\n3.  A.  Department of Defense.\n\n4.  D.  To give his party unfair advantage.  The process is known as gerrymandering, and is done by state legislatures throughout the country.  District lines are drawn to guarantee a member of a certain party will always get elected from that district, and this is best done by giving the other party a district where they will have an overwhelming majority of voters, while giving neighboring districts in your party sizable majorities.  You give up one seat, but may get 4 or 5 in return.\n\n5.  D.  Mayor-council form.  City managers are usually seen in smaller cities.\n\n6.  A.  Vote to impeach.  This means only to accuse, and they can do it for any government official in any branch (legislative, judiciary, executive).  The trial is held in the Senate, and if convicted, the impeached person is removed from office.
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First of all, Congress is bicameral legislature, we also have the House of Representives.  They have plenty of duties. Some of the more basic ones are to set up commitites to investigate situations.  They vote on bills, can declare war, and can impeach the president. There's about 20 more duties they have.
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There are 49 Democrats and 49 Republicans, with 2 independents.  But both independents will caucus with the Dems (voting to determine senate leadership), so the control of the Senate will go to the Dems.  For voting purposes, it is pretty much evenly divided, depending on how the independents vote (Lieberman will probably tend Republican on foreign policy matters, Democrat on domestic policy issues).
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Do you mean in Congress? Gwinnett county, Georgia is split between at least two, maybe three districts.
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The Legislative Branch was created by the U.S. Constitution.  Delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. The fifty-five delegates who signed this monumental political document were the best minds of the Colonies at the time. The Constitution was forwarded to the Congress and the following year was ratified by conventions in nine states, and made the law of the land.\n\nThe Legislative Branch:\n\nThe Congress is the Legislative Branch. Its main function is to pass laws. It also oversees the execution of these laws, and checks various executive and judicial powers\n\nThe Congress is bicameral- it is composed of two houses. One house is the House of Representatives, the other is the Senate.\n\nThe House of Representatives, or House for short, is composed of four hundred and thirty five members. Each state is allocated one or more representatives, based on its population as calculated by the decennial (once in ten years) Census. Each state is entitled to at least one representative. A state that is allocated more than one representative divides itself, as state procedures dictate, into a number of districts equal to the number of representatives it is entitled to elect. The people of each district vote to elect one representative to Congress. (States that have only one representative allocated choose at-large representatives- the state votes as one entire district.) The District of Columbia and a number of U. S. territories have been permitted to elect delegates to the House. These delegates may participate in debates, and sit and vote in committee, but are not allowed to vote in the full House. House members are elected every even-numbered year for two-year terms. The House is presided over by a Speaker, who is elected by the House.\n\nThe Senate represents the states equally. Each state chooses two senators, regardless of population. Originally, senators were chosen by their state's legislature. The Seventeenth Amendment (ratified in 1913), however changed that, and now senators are elected by the voters of their state. Senators are elected for six year terms. Every two years, at the same time as Representative elections, approximately one-third of the senators face elections. The Vice-President is President of the Senate, but only votes if there is a tie. The Senate also chooses a President Pro Tempore to preside in the Vice-President's absence (though, in practice, most of the time, senators from the majority take turns presiding for short periods).\n\nThe Senate and the House are both required to approve legislation before it becomes a law. The two houses are equal in legislative power, but revenue bills (bills relating to taxation) may only originate in the House, however, like other bills, the Senate's approval is still required, and the Senate may amend such bills, as with any other legislation.\n\nThe Senate holds additional powers relating to treaties and the appointments of executive and judicial officials. This power is known as "advice and consent." The Senate's advice and consent is required for the President to appoint judges and many executive officers, and also to ratify treaties. To grant advice and consent on treaties, two-thirds of the Senators must concur (agree).\n\nWhile most votes require a simple majority to pass, Senate rules allow a procedure called a fillibuster (essentially unlimited debate), that can only be ended by three-fifths vote. This effectively means that the minority can force supporters to get the support of three-fifths of members to pass the measure. Use of the fillibuster tends to be controversial. Whichever party is in the majority tends to call its use "obstructionism", while the other side sees it as an important check on the majority.\n\nThe House has the sole power to impeach federal executive and judicial officers. According to the Constitution, officers may be impeached for "trea